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Nancy Walker: New Hieroglyphics

Amidst an overcrowded community, even the cream of the crop has difficulty getting heard beyond their own locales. A regular visitor to relatively nearby Ottawa, Toronto-based Nancy Walker is an Ottawa Jazz Festival regular as part of John Geggie's trio at the late night jam sessions--also participating on the bassist's recent Across the Sky (Plunge, 2010), an at times lyrical, other times incendiary modern mainstream date featuring better-known saxophonist Donny McCaslin. The pianist has been delivering albums under her own ...
read moreNancy Walker: When She Dreams

The dividends paid by working with the same core group of musicians can be significant. Canadian pianist Nancy Walker has been working with bassist Kieran Overs and drummer Barry Romberg since her '97 début, Invitation , and has continued to do so for her subsequent releases, '00's Luminosity and '02's Levitation. For her latest release, When She Dreams , Walker also brings back saxophonist Kirk MacDonald, also featured on Levitation , and the result is an album of contemporary post ...
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