Title: Stride Artist: Danny Grissett Label: Criss Cross Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 8712474133727 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2011-05-17 Number of Discs: 1
On Stride, his fourth Criss Cross leader date, pianist Danny Grissett returns to the trio format he navigated with such panache and imagination on his first two outings for the label. Longtime bass partner Vicente Archer and top-of-the-class drummer Marcus Gilmore join Grissett in a fluent three-way conversation on a reflective program that incorporates the American Songbook, the European canon, original tunes by trumpeters Nicholas Payton and (his current employer) Tom Harrell, and three heady Grissett originals. As always, the leader's playing is melody-driven, harmonically acute, swinging and focused; he again proves himself one of the major voices on his instrument among the under-40 crowd.
Tracks: 1.1 Stride 1.2 Viennese Summer 1.3 Etude Opus 10: No. 6 in E-Flat Minor 1.4 Two Sleepy People 1.5 Close Quarters 1.6 Scene 1.7 It Takes Two to Know One 1.8 Some Other Time
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