Nelson Boschman

Nelson Boschman Trio: Keeping Time Vol.01

by Michael P. Gladstone
January 5, 2005

This album is subtitled “Sounding the Liturgical Year Through Jazz" and divides the session into three subdivisions (Advent-Christmas-Epiphany, Lent-Passion-Easter, Pentecost-Ordinary Time). Pianist Nelson Boschman explains that the songs are linked to the liturgical year of the Catholic Church and, as such, offer not only a traditional approach but an innovative one per the listener's rediscovery of these themes.

The opening track, the traditional “Shenandoah," which is an American folk song based upon a sea shanty, does not appear ...