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Each of the thirteen scenes in this Jazz Play are economically presented, with various instrumental combinations that highlight the range of Robbins’ technique and her impressive improvisational ability.

The harp makes one of its rare appearances in jazz in the hands of Carol Robbins on Jazz Play. She also wrote several of the tunes on this recording and included some standards. And where does that place the music? Right in the mainstream, with some softer shades of what is known as contemporary jazz.

One of the best and the few jazz harp soloists, Carol Robbins on Jazz Play also proves to be a talented songwriter. Several of her originals, particularly such lyrical ballads as “Still Light,” “Darcy’s Waltz,” and “Emilia,” deserve to catch on as standards.

Jazz Play is a stunning collection of originals and standards treated with consummate taste and daring; handled with a poise which eases highly intricate harmonics into a listener’s soul with smiling warmth.

Carol Robbins and her upcoming release of Jazz Play will alter and expand your horizons in jazz. Rich in innovation powerful in arrangement certainly on the right track to future recognition in the industry.

This well crafted release will reward listeners who take the trouble to seek it.

Her playing is unforced and natural, and she voices chords with a nice flair for logical progression. And, let it be said, Robbins can swing.

Although classically trained, Carol Robbins has become a very accomplished jazz artist, and her playing on Three & Four (so named because she works with trio and quartet) bears that out.