Events

Alan Broadbent Trio
‘Like Minds’ (Savant Records)

“This I Dig of You,” the opening of pianist Alan Broadbent’s new album, “Like Minds,” makes me think about optical illusions, particularly of the sort where you see two images at the same time. Say, you’re viewing what seems to be a vase, yet from another angle you see it’s also a pair of human faces in profile.

This sort of thing isn’t exactly rare in jazz, where so many tunes are essentially echoes of earlier songs, but few performers on any instrument have the ability to make you hear two tunes at once and make them both sound beautiful.