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United Soul Experience

By Wycliffe Gordon

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Get It! Get It!; 2. Karen's Contemplation; 3. In Flight; 4. Everyday; 5. Corey's Competition; 6. Periwinkle; 7. On The Spot; 8. Low Key Lightly

Album

Circles

By Jesse van Ruller

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. One; 2. Circles; 3. Here Comes The Sun; 4. Black Dahlia; 5. 33 Waltz; 6. Zoab; 7. Gone With The Wind; 8. Secret Champ.

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Adam Rogers: Allegory

Read "Allegory" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell

After establishing a solid reputation as part of the fusion collective Lost Tribe and as a sideman with the likes of Michael and Randy Brecker, Ravi Coltrane, and others, guitarist Adam Rogers is flexing his considerable chops as a leader. Allegory , his sophomore effort, adds tenor saxophonist Chris Potter to Rogers' quartet with pianist Edward ...

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Adam Rogers: Allegory

Read "Allegory" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Jazz used to be a form of popular music, and indeed a folk music in its own right, before bebop intellectualized it and hard bop institutionalized it. That was a sad development in a way because the music drifted away from the public and ended up holed up in a tiny “art music" niche. When free ...

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Ralph Peterson Quintet: Tests of Time

Read "Tests of Time" reviewed by Alexander M. Stern

by Alexander M. Stern

Not for nothing does Criss Cross have a reputation for being the present day equivalent of Blue Note Records during its heyday in the '50s and '60s. A blindfolded listener could easily be forgiven for mistaking a 2003 Criss Cross album for the work of Hank Mobley, Jimmy Smith, or Grant Green. That may sound worse ...

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Jesse Van Ruller: Circles

Read "Circles" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann

Alluding to funk, soul, as well as a number of modern jazz styles, guitarist Jesse Van Ruller’s quartet functions in a space of its own making that is outside of any familiar category. Both difficult to define and hugely enjoyable, the music features a few significant characteristics. Despite the presence of the leader’s electric guitar and ...

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Tim Warfield: Jazz Is...

Read "Jazz Is..." reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

Although it exists solely for the purposes of recordings and the occasional live gig, Tim Warfield’s quintet (Warfield- tenor saxophone; Nicholas Payton- trumpet; Cyrus Chestnut- piano; Tarus Mateen- bass; Clarence Penn- drums) has been a marvel to hear over the course of four albums dating back to the critically acclaimed A Cool Blue from 1995. They ...

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J.D. Allen: Pharoah's Children

Read "Pharoah's Children" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

When it comes to recordings of mainstream excellence, it's hard to ignore the impressive battery of titles that producer Gerry Teekens has built up for his Criss Cross imprimatur. The label has established an consistently reliable reputation among experienced musicians, most recently shifting towards documenting some cutting edge musicians of a younger age. Case in point, ...

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Adam Rogers: Art of the Invisible

Read "Art of the Invisible" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

Hard to say whether or not producer Gerry Teekens has a special affinity for guitarists, but over the years his catalog has swelled with such skilled plectrists as Jimmy Raney, Peter Bernstein, Bobby Broom, Kurt Rosenwinkle, and Jesse Van Ruller. Now add to that list the name of Adam Rogers, a versatile and valuable sideman who ...

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Wycliffe Gordon: United Soul Experience

Read "United Soul Experience" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

It's dangerous to take labels too seriously where music is involved. Take Wycliffe Gordon, for instance. A protégé of Wynton Marsalis and former charter member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the trombonist is most clearly associated with mainstream sensibilities. Truth be told, however, Gordon has evidenced varied interests by such projects as his studio effort ...


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