June 28th Clara Ponty @ Joe’s Pub, NYC
“We are straightaway struck by the softness, delicacy, the charm, as well in Clara’s voice as in her compositions and arrangements, escaping completely from the soppiness of pop classical (Sara Brightman) and New Age. We are closer to Sting, Oregon, Pat Metheny, the beginning of ECM, of Flora Purim and Airto Moreira (Return to Forever).” […]