Album Review: Rainbow Baby from Cathlene Pineda
Album: Rainbow Baby Artist: Cathlene Pineda Label: Orenda Records Website: http://www.cathlenepineda.com Rainbow Baby from pianist, composer and bandleader Cathlene Pineda combines personal reflections with a classical flare. Earning a master’s degree in jazz piano and composition from CalArts, Pineda charms audiences with her music, melodically woven and elegantly strewn. Pineda plays with such gentleness that the listener is consumed by the calm currents. Soaring above the baseline is the furling toots of Kris Tiner's trumpet, playing a soft serenade along "Carriers I" and coursing a frilly phrasing through "Wonder Weeks." The trumpet provides the tracks with dimension and a narrative voice that when combined with Pineda's keys on "The Collective Memory" breathe a lively dialogue. The balladry swells of "Milo" produce a warm lament as the twinkling glint of the keys illuminating "1Nine" give the track an uplifting...