Release Date: 09 June 2014
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8712474136926
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 09 June 2014
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8712474136926
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
On their third Criss Cross recording since they made their 2011 debut with 'Introducing Opus 5', Opus 5 - a collaborative quintet of New York A-listers - trumpeter Alex Sipiagin, tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake, pianist David Kikoski, bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Donald Edwards - continue to uphold the high standards that it's steadily increasing fan base has come to expect.
Building on multiple tours over the last three years, and simpatico developed over their mutually extended tenure in various units devoted to Charles Mingus' music, they play the evocative tunes - three by Edwards, two by Kozlov, and one apiece by Blake and Sipiagin - with intelligence, creative abandon and cohesion, burnishing Opus 5's stature as 21st century inheritors and extenders of the legacy left by such predecessor quintets as Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis' units of the 1950s and 1960s.
Personnel: Alex Sipiagin (trumpet, flugelhorn) Seamus Blake (tenor saxophone), David Kikoski (piano and Fender Rhodes), Boris Kozlov (bass), Donald Edwards (drums)
Tracklisting
Oz Noy
M.T.B. (Brad Mehldau / Mark Turner / Peter Bernstein)
Misha Tsiganov
Antonio Farao
Gregory Groover Jr.
Michael Thomas
Warne Marsh
Walt Weiskopf
Opus 5
Opus 5
Opus 5