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Jazz Is...
By Tim Warfield
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2003
Track listing: Silence- The Angels Are Crying, Origins, My Shining Hour, The Magic Bag, Tune #2, The Old
Country, Until Further Notice
Art of the Invisible
By Adam Rogers
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2003
Track listing: Long Ago And Far Away, Absalom, Bobo, The Aleph, The Invisible, Cathedral, Book Of Sand, In
Broad Daylight, The Unvanquished
Adam Rogers: Allegory
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 ...
Adam Rogers: Allegory
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 ...
Ralph Peterson Quintet: Tests of Time
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 ...
Jesse Van Ruller: Circles
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 ...
Tim Warfield: Jazz Is...
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 ...
Wycliffe Gordon: United Soul Experience
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 ...
Adam Rogers: Art of the Invisible
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 ...
David Kikoski: Combinations
by C. Andrew Hovan
The victim of corporate disregard for an artist's work, pianist David Kikoski has recorded many records as a leader over the years, although all but his most recent string of releases for Criss Cross are currently unavailable. This fact, along with his extensive work as a sideman, meant that until 1998's Inner Trust, few were aware ...
