[.ca] Heaven Is Creepy

From Amazon.com:
Guitarist Jim Campilongo is no more a jazz artist and no less eclectic than Norah Jones, his bandmate in their Little Willies side project. Like virtuosi as different from each other as Chet Atkins, Jeff Beck, and Pat Metheny--each of whom Campilongo's music occasionally recalls--he's more concerned with tone, timbre, and space than with show-off runs of hot-licks speed. With his rhythm section almost subliminal, supporting the guitarist rather than pushing him, the trio's music is primarily instrumental, though vocalist Martha Wainwright provides a timewarp turn with her tremulous vocal on Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer," while Jones cuts to the heart of "Cry Me a River" (also featured as a wiry instrumental). As the name of the album suggests, Campilongo has a knack for the quirky, catchy title, and as Chuck Berry once praised, "He can play the guitar just like ringing a bell" (literally, on the album-opening "The Prettiest Girl in New York"). --Don McLeese

• The Prettiest Girl in New York
• Monkey in a Movie
• Cry Me a River (instrumental)
• Mr & Mrs Mouse
• Because You Like Trombone
• Hamster Wheel (slight return)
• Beautiful Dreamer - with Martha Wainwright
• Menace
• Heaven Is Creepy
• Nellie Bly
• Cry Me a River - with Norah Jones
• Pepper