Criss Cross Jazz 1217 CD

Jesse van Ruller Quartet / Trio

Here And There

Release Date: February 28, 2002

Joined by an assortment of New York's finest, 29-year-old star guitarist Jesse Van Ruller, Holland's first Thelonious Monk Competition Award-winner, emphatically stamps his voice on a meaty program of jazz originals, less-traveled songbook gems, and an original blues.

On piano the great David Hazeltine, with bassists Nat Reeves or Frans Van Geest, and Joe Farnsworth or Willie Jones III on drums.

1. The Best Things In Life Are Free (DeSilva / Brown / Henderson)
2. Christina (Buster Williams)
3. Bye, Bye Baby (Jules Styne)
4. Subconscious-Lee (Lee Konitz)
5. Prelude To A Kiss (Duke Ellington)
6. Debits And Credits (Jesse van Ruller)
7. Everything I Love (Cole Porter)
8. In Walked Bud (Thelonious Monk)
9. Ballad Of The Sad Young Men (Fr. Landesman)
10. Cedar's Blues (Cedar Walton)

Total Time: 51:00
Recorded January 17, 2001 & October 28, 2001 in Brooklyn, NY, USA & Monster, The Netherlands by Max Bolleman

Jesse van Ruller (G)
David Hazeltine (P)
Nat Reeves (B)
Joe Farnsworth (D)
Frans van Geest (B)
Willie Jones III (D)