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Reflections

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2016
Track listing: Falling Out; King of the Mountain; Wingspan; Reflections; Olvidame; Who Cares?; Samba De Igor; Big O's Blues

Album

Unspoken

By Matt Brewer

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2016
Track listing: Juno; Unspoken; Twenty Years; Lunar; Evil Song; Cheryl; Anthem; Aspiring to Normalcy; Tesuque

Article: Album Review

Bassist Matt Brewer first revealed his talents as a bandleader and a composer on his 2014 Criss Cross debut Mythology. Brewer returns to the Criss Cross label for his sophomore effort with a completely new quintet to explore seven new original compositions, a Bill Frisell cover, and one Charlie Parker tune. Joining him this time around ...

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Seamus Blake / Chris Cheek: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

Read "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
August 29, 2016

Friends and musical collaborators for more than two decades, New York tenor saxophonists Seamus Blake and Chris Cheek have been leaders, sidemen and big band soloist throughout their distinguished careers and seem to cherish their roles as co-leaders on joint projects such as their critically-acclaimed Reeds Ramble (Criss Cross Jazz, 2014). Let's Call the Whole Thing ...

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Conrad Herwig / Igor Butman: Reflections

Read "Reflections" reviewed by Andrew Luhn

by Andrew Luhn
March 23, 2016

"Tight" is the word that most readily comes to mind to describe this band's playing. For Reflections, his tenth release as a leader for the Dutch Criss Cross label, trombonist Conrad Herwig has joined forces with Russian tenor man Igor Butman as co-leader. Rounding out the front-line is trumpeter extraordinaire Alex Sipiagin, a name that will ...

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Misha Tsiganov: Spring Feelings

Read "Spring Feelings" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
March 20, 2016

Russian-born pianist extraordinaire Misha Tsiganov delivers his second album and follow up to his highly-acclaimed Criss Cross Jazz label debut The Artistry of The Standard, with the thoroughly enthralling and enchanting Spring Feelings presenting a superb selection of five outrages originals and four reimagined standards in one exquisite package of post-bop burners. Before recoding the label ...

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Misha Tsiganov: Spring Feelings

Read "Spring Feelings" reviewed by Andrew Luhn

by Andrew Luhn
March 17, 2016

Those who appreciate and follow the art of arranging and orchestration in jazz often point to big band and large ensemble arrangements as examples of excellence, while the art of arranging jazz for the small ensemble is frequently overlooked. Horace Silver, Wayne Shorter, and Andrew Hill are a few who have achieved recognition for their intelligent ...

Album

Serendipity

By Zach Brock

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2015

Album

Tickle

By Opus 5

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2015
Track listing: Silver Pockets; Tickle; New Old Ballad; Five Corners; Equilibrium; Crack To The Crevice; Murzake.

Album

Spherical: Dedicated to Thelonious Sphere Monk

By Tim Warfield

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2015
Track listing: Blue Hawk; Oska T; That Old Man; Gallop's Gallop; Off Minor I; Ugly Beauty; Coming on the Hudson; Off Minor II; 'Round Midnight