Jimi Tenor - Intervision (1997) LP

The disc was recorded in two countries - in England and Finland. In addition to the author, drummer Caroline Bowden and a whole team of Finnish guitarists and wind players participated in the work. Of the eleven songs, only one was not composed by Jimmy Tenor. In the photographs, this unsmiling blond of indeterminate age is given against a certain neutral, strictly geometric background, as well as in the twilight of the studio, alone behind the keyboards. And the music on the CD sounds appropriate - you plunge into the cold, detached-computer-space space of electronic instruments, with filters passed through a meat grinder and carefully dissected vocals.
All this is slightly reminiscent of, say, "Tubeway Army" of the late 70's early 80's. And only the sounds of the trumpet and baritone sax, which are very unexpected here, make the acoustic reality somewhat less virtual.
So it goes to composition N7. This is the most famous jazz piece in the world - "Caravan" by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington. We must pay tribute to Tenor, who was not afraid to take on, probably, the three hundredth version of this immortal standard. True, a jazz orthodox such as South Panasier would have turned over in his grave upon hearing such a computerized "Caravan", but, in my opinion, Tenor succeeded in translating jazz classics into a different musical language. "Caravan" seemed to divide the CD into two unequal parts. All subsequent compositions sound noticeably warmer, although within the framework of the general concept.
...I'm not a big fan of this kind of music, but I readily admit that there are such people and there are even many of them. In any case, referring to his fans in the text on the CD cover, Jimmy expresses the hope that he did not let them down, and says that he gets great pleasure from his work, and it gets stronger the more he works.