Time: 56:21
Size: 129.0 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front
[5:48] 1. Pent-Up Chaos
[8:19] 2. Kind Bug
[6:00] 3. Spillikins
[7:26] 4. Jitterbug Waltz
[6:29] 5. Eric Dolphy's Tomb
[5:09] 6. Falling In Love Again
[6:27] 7. Plain Jane
[5:33] 8. Giant Steps
[5:07] 9. Heaven
Yakov Okun (P); Ben Street (B); Billy Drummond (D). Recorded November 11, 2010 in Brooklyn, NY, USA by Joe Marciano.
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.
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.
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