The Windmills of Your Mind (album)
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| The Windmills of Your Mind | ||||
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| Released | August 9, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | September 2010 | |||
| Studio | Sear Sound, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 52:13 | |||
| Label | Winter & Winter 910 182-2 | |||
| Producer | Stefan Winter | |||
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The Windmills of Your Mind is an album by Paul Motian released on the German Winter & Winter label in 2011,[1] the final release during his lifetime. It features Motian’s long-standing colleague, guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Thomas Morgan and vocalist Petra Haden.
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| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz |  [2] |
| Allmusic |  [3] |
| The Guardian | [4] |
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek stated: "The Windmills of Your Mind is a collection of jazz and pop standards played by a stellar quartet ".[3]
The Guardian's John Fordham observed: "Motian enlists Bill Frisell on guitar and Thomas Morgan on bass to turn the usual glides and smooches of these songs into a lurching, spontaneously contrapuntal undertow, in which the rhythm lies as much in what's not being played as what is".[4]
All About Jazz correspondent Dan Bilawsky commented, "Motian's prolific output makes it easy to occasionally overlook some of his albums, but this one is likely to gain a lot of attention. The Windmills Of Your Mind is simply sublime".[2] JazzTimes's Colin Fleming called the album "a set of pop standards with the deep, well-rounded luxuriousness of modern chamber music, with elements of high-romance. This is jazz as seduction music".[5]
