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Alan Broadbent, Every Time I Think of You (Artistry Music). The pianist applies his keyboard elegance and arranging talent to an album featuring his piano, Brian Bromberg’s bass, Kendall Kay’s drums and a string section. Broadbent’s treatment of “Blue in Green” is a highlight, as haunting in its evocation of Bill Evans as is his “E. 32nd Elegy” of New York City in Lennie Tristano’s day. His string writing supports and enhances the trio without a single harmonic clash, and it avoids the most common sins of jazz albums with strings, repetition and boredom. I keep going back to the shimmering ensemble beneath the simplicity of Broadbent tracing the melody of “Last Night When We Were Young” and to the noirish introduction to “Nirvana Blues.”