Release Date: 29 June 2009
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8712474131426
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 29 June 2009
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8712474131426
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
On his Criss Cross debut, tenor saxophonist Marcus Strickland offers a program of ballads, mixing original compositions and interpretations of classics - the songbook standard What's New, Wayne Shorter's Pinocchio, James Brown's It's a Man's Man's World.
Not yet thirty at the time of the recording date, Strickland displays a ravishing tone and a lyric sensibility that belies his youth. In the band: pianist David Bryant, bassist Ben Williams, and drummer E.J. Strickland Harpist Brandee Q.Younger appears on the ballad Djorolen.
Tracklisting
Noah Preminger
Gregory Groover Jr.
Vladimir Kostadinovic
Alex Sipiagin
Bill Stewart
Oz Noy
M.T.B. (Brad Mehldau / Mark Turner / Peter Bernstein)
Misha Tsiganov
Lafayette Harris Jr.
Brandon Sanders
Joe Locke & Phil Markowitz
Ensemble Fur Neue Musik Zurich
Rebecca Trescher
Lennart Ginman, Thomas Blachman & Carsten Dahl
Doug Raney Quartet
Nigel Price Organ Trio