Quilico, whose career output includes a mind-boggling fifty-plus records, has assembled the eclectic cornucopia of RETRO AMERICANA with her usual proficient, stylistic command. Atonal pioneer Henry Cowell shakes hands with a rather lighthearted George Gershwin, while their living colleagues Meredith Monk and Bill Westcott are just as diligently heroized as the late legends Frederic Rzewski and Art Tatum. Their respective times and voices are impeccably tied together by Quilico’s trademark: her rivetingly acuminous interpretation.
