Synkka Metsa

With an overview that would make you think this set has an ECM vibe to it, this collection of jazz meeting Finnish folk songs is way more daddio than you might imagine. Inspired by Art Farmer's original expatriot forays, Wood and her pals travel into the dark forest ( that's what the title translates to) (unless you'd rather have her travel into the dark woods--something that matches her tone) for a quasi-impressionistic date that isn't really for eggheads. Solid sitting down jazz with stellar work turned in from all players, this is how daddio jazz plays in the land of death metal. Check It out.