Criss Cross Jazz new releases September 2013

Here are the new Criss Cross Jazz releases for September 2013,
which will be available around September 20. All details can be
found on the website:

         https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/


CRISS 1361 CD    DAYNA STEPHENS QUINTET - I'LL TAKE MY CHANCES -

Tenor saxophonist Dayna Stephens is poised, poetic and furiously
swinging on his second Criss Cross effort, I'll Take My Chances,
a follow-up to his remarkable 2012 release Today Is Tomorrow.

The quintet features guitarist Charles Altura, a newcomer to
Criss Cross and a key melodic and solo voice throughout. Pianist
Gerald Clayton, returning to Criss Cross after sideman sessions
with Kendrick Scott and Michael Rodriguez, brings keen virtuosity
and harmonic insight to Stephens' challenging, deeply lyrical
compositions. Bassist Joe Sanders, who issued Introducing Joe Sanderson
on Criss Cross in 2012, achieves an effortless sense of connection
with drummer Bill Stewart, a veteran of over 20 Criss Cross sessions,
not to mention one of the great influential players of the last 20
years.

Along with 5 originals, Field of Landmines by Stephens and Marcus
Gilmore, Adrift by Aaron Parks (the pianist on Today Is Tomorrow)
and a hard-swinging reinvention of Brad Mehldau's Unrequited,
Stephens also includes a rhapsodic treatment of Ellington's Prelude
to a Kiss, featuring guest vocalist Becca Stevens. There's also a
striking departure: a track with Clayton on organ and the leader on
husky, soul-drenched baritone sax.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1361.html


CRISS 1362 CD   DEE DANIELS and QUARTET - STATE OF THE ART -

State Of The Art is not only singer Dee Daniels' debut leader date
for Criss Cross, but the label's first-ever release by a vocalist
after three decades and hundreds of recordings by jazz' best and
brightest.

It's a worthy addition -- the Seattle-born vocalist, who sang two
numbers on Wycliffe Gordon's recent Criss Cross date The Intimate
Ellington, brings her richly textured multi-octave voice,
instrumentally-flexible phrasing, and keen interpretative abilities
to a program comprising 12 gems from various corners of the American
Songbook.

Enhancing the swinging, soulful, old-master flavor and 21st century
feel are tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, who contributes apropos
testifying solos and obligatos throughout, and a synchronously
grooving rhythm section with pianist Cyrus Chestnut, bassist Paul
Beaudry, and drummer Alvester Garnett.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1362.html


CRISS 1363 CD   PHILIP DIZACK QUINTET - SINGLE SOUL -

For his Criss Cross debut, 28-year-old trumpeter Philip Dizack
presents a suite of seven originals, an a cappella reading of
Duke Ellington's I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good, and a trumpet
bass duo of Lionel Loueke's Benny's Tune, that displays his
exceptional maturity as a composer and facilitator of memorable
improvisations.

Providing the latter are multi-woodwindist-composer Ben Wendel on
tenor saxophone, pianist Eden Ladin, and the kinetic bass-drum
tandem of Joe Sanders and Eric Harland. Dizack himself enhances his
ascendant reputation as a master of his instrument, displaying
enviable range and consistent melodic invention, projecting deep
emotion, and always telling a story.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1363.html