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Sonny Criss: Catching The Sun
by Nic Jones
There have sometimes been itinerant qualities to the jazz musician's life, not only in terms of where they've lived, but also where and when they recorded. Sonny Criss spent the best part of his life in Los Angeles, and the sad fact is that the devotion he showed not only to the city and its people ...
The Complete Imperial Sessions
By Sonny Criss
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Willow Weep For Me, These Foolish Things, Blue Friday, Sunday, More Than You Know, Easy Living, Alabamy Bound, Something's Gotta Give, West Coast Blues, Criss Cross, Ham's Blues, Sweet Georgia Brown, Summertime, Memories of You, Wailin' With Joe, How Deep Is the Ocean, The Blues For Rose, The Man I Love, Until The Real Thing Come Along, Blue Prelude, After You've Gone, Come Rain Or Come Shine, How High the Moon, If I Had You, I Love You, Anything Goes, Easy To Love, It's All Right With Me, In the Still of the Night, Love For Sale, Night and Day, Just One of Those Things, What Is This Thing Called Love, I Get a Kick Out of You
Sonny Criss: The Complete Imperial Sessions
by C. Andrew Hovan
Had alto saxophonist Sonny Criss spent most of the time on the East Coast instead of settling in Los Angeles, he might have become more of a household name. In fact, it wasn’t until he made a series of sides for Prestige in the late ‘60s that he obtained even a modicum of the recognition due ...
Sonny Criss: Intermission Riff
by AAJ Staff
The tapes were on a high shelf in an old storeroom, so lost that their labels were barely legible. Producer Eric Miller stumbled upon them while putting other tapes back; the faint scrawling ("JATP/SHRINE/1951") piquing his interest. With the personnel unlisted, there was nothing to do but listen. “As soon as I heard the alto, I ...
Crisscraft
By Sonny Criss
Label: 32 Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: The Isle of Celia; Blues In My Heart; This Is For Benny; All Night Long; Crisscraft.
Sonny Criss: Crisscraft
by Jim Santella
Alto saxophonist Sonny Criss was at his prime when he made this recording for Muse Records in 1975. Recently reissued by 32 Jazz, the session is just over a half hour long, but offers a rare opportunity to appreciate Criss's pure expressive sound, along with that of pianist Dolo Coker, guitarist Ray Crawford, bassist Larry Gales ...
