Criss Cross Jazz 1311 CD

Alex Sipiagin

Mirages

On his seventh Criss Cross album Russian trumpeter Alex Sipiagin offers a program of four originals, a tune apiece by Joe Henderson and Wayne Shorter from their 60s Blue Note period, and a songbook chestnut, approaching each one with virtuoso chops and fresh ideas, in the process reaffirming his position as a major voice in his instrument's timeline.

Joining him are pianist Mulgrew Miller, Sipiagin's bandmate in the Dave Holland Sextet; tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake, a musical colleague since the mid-90's, when both started working with the Mingus Big Band; bassist Boris Kozlov, with whom Sipiagin emigrated to New York from Russia in 1991; and state-of-the-art New York drummer Johnathan Blake.

	1.	One For Mike I (Alex Sipiagin)
	2.	Mirages (Alex Sipiagin)
	3.	Live Score (Alex Sipiagin)
	4.	Levitin's Kingdom (Alex Sipiagin)
	5.	Just One Of Those Things (Cole Porter)
	6.	Tetragon (Joe Henderson)
	7.	Iris (Wayne Shorter)
	8.	One For Mike II (Alex Sipiagin)

Total Time: 70:55
Recorded June 17, 2008 in Brooklyn, NY, USA by Michael Marciano

Alex Sipiagin (Tp / Flh)
Seamus Blake (Ts)
Mulgrew Miller (P)
Boris Kozlov (B)
Johnathan Blake (D)