VANNO: THE MOVIE
One of the smartest things Martin Scorsese did in The King Of. Comedy was bracket it with songs by Ray Charles and Van Morrison. The movie may have had a chilly souilessness, but at either end there were voices that virtually define soul. There’s a direct line between Charles and Morrison, and it’s very evident on A Sense Of Wonder, a record that comes at you with a clear sense of purpose.
VANNO: THE MOVIE
VAN MORRISON A Sense Of Wonder (Mercury)
Mitchell Cohen
One of the smartest things Martin Scorsese did in The King Of. Comedy was bracket it with songs by Ray Charles and Van Morrison. The movie may have had a chilly souilessness, but at either end there were voices that virtually define soul. There’s a direct line between Charles and Morrison, and it’s very evident on A Sense Of Wonder, a record that comes at you with a clear sense of purpose. It’S freer of ambiguous detours than Morrison’s music has been in a while: the liner notes, whose narrative harkens back to the crypticfable approach of Moondance and Dylan’s John Wesley Harding, are about as off-center as this gets.