submitted on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 06:05 in Jazz Niche by Mike_Longo 
Although it's a record on which three adventurous London musicians each contribute to making the earth move, Blink may one day be best remembered as the album with which pianist Alcyona Mick started getting taken very seriously indeed.
Still in her mid-twenties, Mick is a jazz player whose style is enriched by her love of contemporary classical music. Here, she reveals herself as a composer and improviser who has absorbed her diverse early influences--amongst them Thelonious Monk, Lennie Tristano, Bela Bartok and Olivier Messiaen--learnt from them, moved on from them, and found her own distinctive voice. The expectations raised by her debut album, Around The Sun (Audio-B, 2006), recorded in 2004 when she was still a student at The Royal Academy of Music, are fulfilled completely and irresistibly. It may sound a little breathless to say this, but hey...with Blink a new star is amongst us...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: Chris May
