Jazz / Post-Bop; New Orleans Jazz
Recorded May 30, 2005, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Wycliffe Gordon - trombone, vocals
Stacy Dillard - tenor saxophone
Johnny O'Neal - piano
Reginald Veal - bass
Herlin Riley - drums
Wycliffe Gordon's sixth effort for Criss Cross features the trombonist with the biggest sound around in a program comprised predominantly of original blues.
Gordon demonstrates his mastery of that most versatile African American art form, playing slow, fast, sad, reverent and raucous variations, accompanied by his regular working trio with Jazz Messengers alumnus Johnny O'Neal at the piano and the New Orleans rhythm team of bassist Reginald Veal, and drummer Herlin Riley.
Joining the quartet, making his Criss Cross debut, is Muskegon Heights, Michigan tenor saxophonist Stacy Dillard, whose deep dark soulful tone perfectly complements the similarly endowed leader. |
