Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
I've read the name Linda May Han Oh for the first time in the liner notes of Fabian Almazan's "Alcanza Suite", where she's listed as playing the double bass. However, she's an outstanding composer in her own right. She grants extensive space to Greg Ward (saxes) and Matt Mitchell (piano) to expand their own ideas, but otherwise, the music subsists on its tight and complex arrangements. Besides nine original compositions, this album comprises awesome arrangements of compositions by Charlie Parker ("Au Privave"), Johann Sebastian Bach ("Cancrizan"), and Bill Evans ("Time Remembered"), as well as transformations of two Chinese "shuo chang" traditionals ("Song Yue Rao", "Deep Sea Dancers"). They are so thoroughly reworked that I wouldn't dare to call them "cover versions".
Favorite track: The Sirens Are Wailing.