Beata Pater uses her learning and talent for progressing her art. Dissatisfied with stylistic stasis, she is constantly evolving into something more sophisticated and progressive. Tet, her ninth release, again finds the singer establishing new harmonic ground. Using an 18-piece orchestra with wind and brass and string double quartets, sans drums, she achieves a sound between Miles Davis’s Birth of the Cool and Oliver Nelson’s Blues and the Abstract Truth as realized by the lovechild of Betty Carter and Mark Murphy. But Pater is like no other. Elastic and malleable, hers is the new voice of jazz vocals. – C. Michael Bailey – AllAboutJazz
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