Criss Cross Jazz new releases May 2007

Here are the new Criss Cross Jazz releases for May 2007
to be available around May 25, 2007. All details can be
found on the website:
        https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/

CRISS 1291 CD    VICTOR GOINES QUARTET - LOVE DANCE -

On his Criss Cross debut, NEW ADVENTURES, Victor Goines, a long standing
member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Director of the Jazz
Department at New York's prestigious Juilliard School of Music, presented
his swaggering, romantic approach to the tenor saxophone and his pure
melodic concept on the soprano.

On LOVE DANCE, the excellent follow-up, joined by pianist Peter Martin,
bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Greg Hutchinson, each an A-lister of
modern swing, Goines focuses more on the clarinet, which he plays with
assured virtuosity and creative flair - he developed an international
reputation on the instrument during his tenure with the Wynton Marsalis
Septet - but also uncorks a series of authoritative tenor improvisations.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1291.html


CRISS 1292 CD   ALEX SIPIAGIN QUINTET - PRINTS -

For his sixth Criss Cross release, trumpeter Alex Sipiagin focuses more
heavily on his own writing than on 2005's RETURNING. Clearly rooted in
the jazz tradition, Sipiagin's compositions continue to evolve his
distinctly modernistic approach to harmony, meter and form.

The ever-inventive and ever-supportive bassist Scott Colley is back from
RETURNING, as is drummer Antonio Sanchez, who continues to demonstrate a
remarkable ability to combine elasticity, reponsiveness and groove.
Pianist David Kikoski, a longtime collaborator, broadens the textural
palette through his use of the Fender Rhodes on selected tracks, while
ubiquitous saxophonist Chris Potter adds both passion and elegance.

Eminently approachable despite their inherent depth and complexity,
Sipiagin's five compositions remain as focused and lyrical as his playing.
Sipiagin reinvents Thelonious Monk's Epistrophy and Bill Evans' rarely
covered Orbit (Unless It's You), both seamlessly fitting within his musical
universe while remaining true to their essence.

PRINTS is a definitive statement from an artist whose star continues to rise.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1292.html


CRISS 1293 CD   JOEL WEISKOPF TRIO - DEVOTED TO YOU -

Brazilian influenced rhythms, loose-limbed swing, and secondline grooves
are all part of Joel Weiskopf's fourth Criss Cross session as a leader.

His incisive piano improvisations are enhanced by two of the label's star
sidemen, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Eric Harland, each of whom
also take adventage of a plentiful amount of solo space.

The program includes Weiskopf''s melodically opulent compositions, the
standard You Must Believe in Spring, the spiritual Wondrous Love, and
a rousing rendition of Martin Luther's hymn A Mighty Fortress.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1293.html


CRISS 1294 CD   ADONIS ROSE SEXTET - ON THE VERGE -

Burnouts, ballads and the blues coexist felicitously on drummer Adonis
Rose's third Criss Cross date, ON THE VERGE.

As he did on SONG FOR DONISE and THE UNITY, the New Orleans born drummer,
now a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, deploys former boss Nicholas Payton
and ex Payton Quintet members tenorist Tim Warfield and bassist Reuben
Rogers, augmenting the group with pianist Aaron Goldberg and vibraphonist
Warren Wolf, his former front-line partners in Payton's quintet.

Rose knits together the proceedings with fluid, precisely executed grooves,
dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1294.html