Criss Cross Jazz new releases September 2012

Here are the new Criss Cross Jazz releases for September 2012, which
will be available around September 25. All details can be found on
the website:

         https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/

CRISS 1350 CD    CLARENCE PENN QUARTET - DALI IN COBBLE HILL -

On his long-awaited follow-up to his critically lauded 1996 Criss Cross
debut, Penn's Landing (Criss 1134), and the equally powerful Play-Penn
(Criss 1201), from 2001, master drummer-percussionist Clarence Penn
presents Dali in Cobble Hill, a meditation on how the iconic Surrealist
painter might have digested a stroll through Penn's Brooklyn
neighborhood.

The eight originals and two standards incorporate a variety of moods,
flavors, and strategies that reflect Penn's extensive activity as a
sideman for jazz' best-and-brightest over the past decades; his
ensemble of grandmaster generational contemporaries --- Chris Potter
on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, Adam Rogers on guitar, and Ben
Street on bass --- inhabit the stories, playing with deep imagination
and virtuosic craft. A must-hear.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1350.html


CRISS 1351 CD   OPUS 5 - PENTASONIC -

The powerful all-star quintet Opus 5 returns with Pentasonic, the
follow-up to their muscular 2011 debut Introducing Opus 5. It's a
can't-miss lineup with tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake and trumpeter
Alex Sipiagin in the front line, David Kikoski doubling on piano
and Fender Rhodes, Boris Kozlov on bass, and Donald Edwards on drums.

Once again Opus 5 puts original music by the band's members in the
forefront, but the choice arrangements of Charlie Parker's seldom-heard
Charlie's Wig and Freddie Hubbard's classic Red Clay bring unique and
unexpected angles to the session.
Moody and ethereal, rhythmically skewed, always furiously burning ---
this is music that lives up to the name of everyone involved.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1351.html


CRISS 1352 CD   CONRAD HERWIG QUINTET - A VOICE THROUGH THE DOOR -

It would be fellow Criss Cross associate Walt Weiskopf who would bring
Conrad Herwig into the label's fold back in 1992. The trombonist would
then go on to record his own Criss Cross debut, Heart of Darkness
(Criss 1155) in 1998.
Now some 15 years into his tenure, Herwig has recorded eight remarkable
and engagingly diverse albums with A Voice Through the Door being his
latest breakthrough.

Highlighting a distinguished composer, this inspired recital includes
seven new Herwig originals along with a reworking of the standard All
or Nothing At All.

The emphasis is on shared communication, an aspect that is clearly
evident through Herwig's long track record with pianist Orrin Evans
and drummer Donald Edwards.

Adding something new to the mix, however, are new associations with
tenor man Ralph Bowen and bassist Kenny Davis, themselves frequent
collaborators going back to their days with the band Out of the Blue.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1352.html