Results for "Criss Cross"

David Kikoski: Combinations

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 25, 2003

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 ...

Mike DiRubbo: Human Spirit

by David A. Orthmann
May 17, 2003

On his second Criss Cross release, alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo thrives on the challenges posed by a great rhythm section. Pianist David Hazeltine, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Joe Farnsworth, most notably of the cooperative sextet One For All, have lit a fire under dozens of significant jazz recordings over the past decade. Full of inspired ...

Wycliffe Gordon Quintet: United Soul Experience

by David A. Orthmann
February 13, 2003

The brainchild of producer Gerry Teekens, United Soul Experience extricates trombonist Wycliffe Gordon from the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra orbit and teams him with some of the most interesting young talent in the Criss Cross stable. Tradition-minded but not predictable, the music alludes to several jazz and funk styles without settling into any one of them. ...

Subliminal Seduction

By Ralph Peterson

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2002
Track listing: Trials Of Trust And Treachery, The Vicious Cycle, The Fifth Insight, Tears I Cannot Hide, Essence Of The Wizard, But I Never Left, The Seventh Insight, Social Response, I Only Miss Her When She's Gone, Synergy, Subliminal Seduction

Ultimatum

By George Colligan

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2002
Track listing: Ultimatum; Ancestral Wisdom; Catalyst; Was it Not Meant to Be?; Shiva's Dance; Silkscreen; Across...; Wishful Thinking; Lords of Justice.

Soul Proprietor

By Ralph Bowen

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2002
Track listing: Invitation, Soul Proprietor, My Ideal, Spikes, Under a Cloud, The First Stone, Inner Urge, Meltdown, Peace

Steppin' Zone/Hindsight

By Alex Sipiagin

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2002
Track listing: Steppin' Zone: Catalyst (take 1), Room 28, Steppin' Zone, Spacing, Missouri Uncompromised, Moonstone, Conception, Catalyst (take 2)

Hindsight Very Early I, Hindsight, Reincarnation of a Love Bird, Linear Passage, Second Shot, Light Blue, Upstream, Very Early II

Art of the Invisible

By Adam Rogers

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2002
Track listing: Long Ago and Far Away, Absalom, Bobo, The Aleph, The Invisible, Cathedral, Book of Sand, In Broad Daylight, The Unvanquished

Here and There

By Jesse van Ruller

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Best Things In Life Are Free, Christina, Bye Bye Baby, Subconcious-Lee, Prelude to a Kiss, Debits and Credits, Everything I Love, In Walked Bud, Ballad of the Sad Young Men, Cedar's Blues

Systems Blue

By Steve Davis

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2002
Track listing: Surrey With The Fringe On Top; Spirit Waltz; Systems Blue; A Nightingale Sang In Berleley Square; If I Love Again; Who Can I Turn To; Speak Low; 8. Namely You; Three and One; My Old Flame.