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Karrin Allyson's new album is her strongest collection of songs since the one-two punch of “Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane” and “In Blue” from 2001-2002. Allyson has mined this territory before, most notably with her 1999 album “From Paris to Rio,” but “Imagina” demonstrates just how much she has grown as a vocalist in the intervening years.
Singing in Portuguese and English, she nails both the melancholy and playfulness of the lyrics in a collection that digs deep into the catalogs of Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.
– GLENN WHIPP
