The superb jazz singer Kate McGarry has a new trio and a new album “The Subject Tonight Is Love” (on Binxtown Records). The instrumentalists are her husband guitarist and bass player Keith Ganz and pianist, organist, and accordion player Gary Versace.
McGarry has said that the love she is referring to on the CD is not simply the romantic kind, but a response to the political and social upheaval of the last year. The album starts with a recitation of the title piece, a short poem by the 14th-century Persian poet Hafiz as translated by Daniel Ladinsky, with musical accompaniment.
