Release Date: 11 April 2011
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8712474133420
Genres: Jazz  
Release Date: 11 April 2011
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8712474133420
Genres: Jazz  
Description
A major force in Russian Jazz since the mid '90s, pianist Yakov Okun, finally places himself on the international stage with his Criss Cross debut, a trio date with world-class bass-drum team Ben Street and Billy Drummond on which he mixes challenging original material with strong arrangements and less traveled Songbook repertoire and tunes by Sonny Rollins, and Fats Waller. At 38, Okun is an individualistic voice, an important player, able in his improvisations to refract an entire timeline of jazz vocabulary in a cogent, compositional manner.
Tracklisting
Vladimir Kostadinovic
Alex Sipiagin
Bill Stewart
Oz Noy
M.T.B. (Brad Mehldau / Mark Turner / Peter Bernstein)
Misha Tsiganov
Antonio Farao
Gregory Groover Jr.
Luc-Hubert Sejor
Karl Ratzer Trio
Blue Earth Sound
Danny Grissett
Dena DeRose
Lyle Mays Trio & Sextet
Antoine Fafard
Joe Mcphee, Susanna Gartmayer, John Edwards, Maria Portugal