Annette, hatOLOGY****

Though Bley and Peacock were both once married to the dedicatee, the little known, elusive singer-songwriter Annette Peacock, it was Koglmann who suggested they do this long unavailable and just reissued album of her songs. Spare, emotionally equivocal and vulnerable, their linear and harmonic twists nourish the often gripping musings of Koglmann's trumpet and flügelhorn, Bley's piano and Peacock's bass, as the players delve beyond the notes into the edgy, fugitive world of compositions whose ambivalence is like a psychic itch. It's this fraught beauty that makes both, very different, takes of Touchingso moving, and underpins the elegaic Albert's Love Themeand the superb Mister Joy. And the range of this unique artist also inspires the quirkiness of Cartoon, like a Jackson Pollock take on Peanuts, and the hyperactive impressionism of Kid Dynamite. See hathut.com