Canada’s Diana Panton returns with a themed album that draws parallels between the four seasons and the cycles of love and life. Relayed through intimate and emotive songwriting, this disc finds Panton in esteemed company that includes Canadian National Jazz Award winner Reg Schwager, as well as three Order of Canada Honourees (Guido Basso, Phil Dwyer, and Don Thompson).<\/p>\n
\u201cThey Say It’s Spring\u201d starts off with Panton’s sweet, soft vocals and even softer instrumentation; it\u2019s not unlike a warm, soothing spring day with a calm horn solo in the middle. \u201cThe Heather On The Hill\u201d follows\u00a0 and is a bit gentler, with a quaint piano melody before the slightly more forceful yet just as elegant \u201cUp Jumped Spring,\u201d where Panton’s remarkable voice is on display in a more playful fashion. \u201cThat Sunday, That Summer\u201d brings us towards a jazz lounge piano tune, before the first guitar-focused song: the calm strumming of \u201cEstate,\u201d which really should soundtrack every romantic dinner.<\/p>\n
The middle of the album continues the sophistication, with the plucking bass of \u201cManhattan,\u201d the solemn keys of \u201cLa Fin Des Vacances\u201d (one of two tunes not sung in English), and the fun, almost quirky vibraphone of \u201cSeptember In The Rain.\u201d Panton’s jazz tendencies are in full bloom on \u201cTis Autumn,\u201d which is just a saxophone and Panton’s gorgeous pipes.<\/p>\n
The last few tunes get a touch more rich, especially with the muffled trumpets of \u201cCloudy Morning,\u201d which also return on the languid \u201cCloudy Morning.\u201d The album highlight \u201cI Like Snow\u201d falls near the end and is so upbeat and lush that it could soundtrack any day where the sun shines bright and the sky is so blue you’d want to dive into it. <\/p>\n
Panton is a two-time Juno winner, and listening to this eighth album, it’s easy to see why. Although your local record store might file this under ‘Jazz’, that might be doing Panton as disservice as her art is nothing short of timeless, universally enjoyable emotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10153],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45270","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-diana-panton","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45270"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45270"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}