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NEIL PEARLMAN/Coffee and the Mojo Hat: Maybe bringing Latin jazz to Cape Breton Celt sounds isn't the stretch Pearlman thinks it is---or maybe you have to be a musicologist to appreciate the nuances and subtleties. If you aren't, you can just sit back and enjoy this jazzed up take on what basically sounds like "Riverdance" and some variations within. Pearlman is a skillful piano man that can go from sounding like classic Ramsey Lewis to a cat vamping on some whore house piano at your fave piano bar. A thoroughly enjoyable alt.adult piano set, Pearlman can call his stuff what ever he likes but if you like some lite piano jazz with lots of whimsy in the grooves, this is the new kid on the block you need to get to know. Well done.