World's away (Jesse Cook) (LP 152 - 154)

Jesse Cook Nomad (CD - Norada/Virgin, 2003) ***
Jesse Cook Frontiers (CD -  Virgin, 2007) *** 
Jesse Cook The Rumba Foundation (CD - EMI, 2009) ***  

Genre: World

Places I remember: Virgin Megastores in Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai.

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: La Llorona (Frontiers)




Gear costume: Cecilia (The Rumba Foundation), It Ain't Me Babe (Frontiers).

Active compensatory factors: Canadian guitarist, Jesse Cook, is huge in the Middle East. His flamenco guitar has a number of Middle Eastern and European flavours and so I had no clue he was Canadian until I checked out his biography for this post.

The tasteful Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel covers are the only nods to pop influences on these CDs - mostly some great Latin jazz style rhythms are the order of the day.

Frontiers is the pick of the three studio albums featured here, in case you were wondering.

Where do they all belong? He traverses a variety of genres - world, jazz, even pop at times but resides in the 'World' section of my collection.