Transformation review: Glenn Close's carefully curated spoken word jazz album is a ready reckoner for change

Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance and Evolution is a jazz album that is more philosophical than freewheeling, more a chronicle of social change than a piece of leisurely listening. In possibly the most transformative of times in our lives, comes feted actress Glenn Close’s carefully curated spoken word with jazz album Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance and Evolution. Philosophical more than the freewheeling nature of jazz, the album is a ready reckoner for change, and how with acceptance comes one’s healing. Not every spoken word piece has a musical one in response though one of my favourite sets of performances in the album is the ‘Dear Dad’ one. Ted Nash: composer, conductor, sop saxophone Glenn Close: curator Wayne Brady, Amy Irving, Matthew Stevenson, Eli Nash: Spoken word Wynton Marsalis: trumpet Presented by members of Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra Listen to the full album here.