Nathan Haines - Vermillion Skies

2013 album from the New Zealand saxophonist. Following his highly successful, back-to-origins '60s-framed album the Poet's Embrace, Nathan Haines here not only continues in a similar vein but expands the parameters of his writing (the ballad 'Lady Lywa' is instantly memorable and a real highpoint of economy and craftsmanship) and works with a large ensemble on a stately reworking and expansion of JJ Johnson's midnight ballad 'Lament', arranged and conducted by Wayne Senior.