On About Love: Laura Zakian once again show a fine nose for rooting out interesting and unusual contemporary material. The trio of pop songs she covers all elicit A-list performances and masterly arrangements. Despite the song's technical challenges (the melodic line sounds like a mutha to sing) 'Disney Girls' by Beach Boy Bruce Johnston illustrates Zakian's strong storytelling gifts. The singer brings a hypnotic, incantatory quality to 'Love Junkyard', a song make famous by Rickie Lee Jones, while on 'Two Grey Rooms' - the concluding track on Joni Mitchell's Night Ride Home album - she achieves a subtle balance between ennui and obsession. Elsewhere, Zakian show her sustaining power in Day in Day Out, has a ball on the elaborately arranged 'The Gentleman Is A Dope' and loveingly caresses the lyric of 'He Was Too Good To Me'. This fine album comes to a close with a memorable take on ' I Could Have Told You'. As on her previous release, Just One Of Those Things, pianist Jim Watson is a key presence