Catholic song selection from Handel to Coltrane, and Carl Raven’s superbly intimate, ringingly atmospheric recording confirm Zawadzki’s fine vocal talent. Following her long-gestating solo debut China Lane, she’s paired here with pianist Whieldon, a regular, intuitive collaborator. Zawadzki’s also a multi-lingual lyricist, composer and pianist, adding her own words to Coltrane’s ‘Naima’, her vocal floating high, sinking with heartbroken weight, and finishing with piercing power. The Spanish-language title track, one of two songs where Whiedon’s wife, clarinettist Rosa Campos Fernandez, joins the duo, is a shiveringly intense, inevitably sad romance, the music all stalking, building drama. Whieldon, pensive, minimal and sometimes verging on stiff, finds a delicately rolling groove on ‘Down On The Turnpike’, and brief echoes of stride elsewhere. Mentored by New Orleans singer Lillian Boutté as a teenager, Zawadzki takes ‘Basin Street Blues’ pretty trad, with the husky timbre to convince on this and Wayne Shorter’s ancestral, Afrocentric ‘Black Nile’. She’s best on Nina Simone’s toughly romantic kiss-off ‘I’m Gonna Leave You’, and the very different soulfulness of Handel’s ‘Lascia Ch’io Pianga’, a classical performance marked by ghostly howls and cries.