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Impromptu

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2015
Track listing: Impromptu; La Guaracha; Fragment; Descaargation; Love Samba; Latin Jacks; Tu Mi Delirio; Minor Things

Album

Balance 38-58

By Alex Sipiagin

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2015
Track listing: 38-58; Way to Her; Momentum; Echoes of Thought; Balance; Yragon; Trio Whale

Album

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2015
Track listing: Blue J; Seven Tune; The Kicker; Winter Silence; The In-Between; Mr. Wiggle Worm; Dreamsville; Stablemates; How Deep Is the Ocean; Sweetest Disposition.

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Idlewild

By Lage Lund

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2015
Track listing: Rumspringa; Intro to Rain; Come Rain or Come Shine; So In Love; Isn't This My Sound Around Me?; Mirrors; Just One of Those Things; Intro to Chance; Chance; Good Morning Heartache; Straight Street; Idlewild

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The Rodriguez Brothers: Impromptu

Read "Impromptu" reviewed by Andrew Luhn

by Andrew Luhn
June 2, 2015

Those of us who have siblings know the special bond that brothers and sisters share. From being able to quote the same movies, to sharing memories of childhood and growing up, it's hard to deny that siblings have a unique connection. It should come as no surprise then, that this unique connection gives siblings a certain ...

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Tim Warfield: Spherical: Dedicated to Thelonious Sphere Monk

Read "Spherical: Dedicated to Thelonious Sphere Monk" reviewed by Andrew Luhn

by Andrew Luhn
March 16, 2015

Thelonious Monk tribute albums are certainly nothing new in the jazz world. As early as 1961, Eddie Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin recorded Lookin' at Monk and pianist Bud Powell recorded Portrait of Thelonious. Even while his career was still going strong, Monk's importance as a composer and influence on other jazz musicians was already clear. ...

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Lage Lund: Idlewild

by Andrew Luhn
March 14, 2015

Guitarist Lage Lund's previous two albums as a leader for the Criss Cross label utilized the quartet setting with Ben Street on bass, Bill Stewart on drums, and Aaron Parks on piano for 2013's Foolhardy and Edward Simon in the piano chair for 2009's Unlikely Stories. For 2015's release “Idlewild" Lund brings back his familiar rhythm ...

Article: Album Review

Alex Sipiagin: Balance 38-58

Read "Balance 38-58" reviewed by Andrew Luhn

by Andrew Luhn
March 9, 2015

Jazz fans who have followed trumpeter Alex Sipiagin's career thus far will have noticed that he likes to approach his original (and highly unique) music differently on each new album he presents. His 2013 release on the distinguished Criss Cross label, Overlooking Moments, presented his music in a stripped-down, chord-less quartet setting and focused on the ...

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David Hazeltine and Mike Kaplan: Two Perspectives On Cedar Walton

by David A. Orthmann
January 11, 2015

Years ago, I often went to a club in which a guest soloist was coupled with the house rhythm section. At one point in nearly every opening set, in an effort to find some common ground, the leader called Cedar Walton's “Bolivia." Sitting and waiting in anticipation for the theme to be played became an important ...

Album

Evolution Of An Influenced Mind

By Donald Edwards

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2014
Track listing: American Drum Call To Mama; History of the Future; Niecee; The Essential Passion; Dock's House; Nightmare of Fun; When; Culmination For Now; Not Really Gumbo; Truth or Consequence