Sometimes you get access to a disk only indirectly. Perhaps a failed cover or just the wrong mood leads the imagination on the wrong track. So I felt with this record, which I found disappointing in the first and second hearing. Then I put them a very early morning to when I could not sleep, and I was thrilled. Since then, she is almost my favorite CD of LC. Sharon Robinson has found exactly the right tunes for Leonards sensitive texts, and also the synthesizer production no longer bothers me. You just have to be patient with the plate. While one can argue about how religious songs of Mr. Cohen are, in any case, these "Ten New Songs" so contemplative, yet evocative, as can be found nowhere else. May he remain with us for a long time!
