Luis Perdomo - Spirits and WarriorsFor his fourth Criss Cross recording, pianist Luis Perdomo offers a swinging affair, on which a crackling quintet of New York first callers interprets 7 originals by the leader (the centerpiece is the well wrought six piece "Spirits and Warriors Suite" that gives the CD it's title), Clifford Jordan's iconic jazz standard "Glass Bead Games," and the classic ballad "Portrait of Jenny." Propelled by drumgrandmaster Billy Hart and bassist Ugonna Okegwo,

is a long free jazz piece by an 11-piece orchestra

We experience it as painful when an intimate dream is destroyed by violence from outside

Op 16 / Fiddler Per He Fiddles

and a Golden Badge from the British Association of Composers

Often brutal and yet strangely seductive

A red hot chaos

'Up All Night'

from the first notes you can hear those magical keyboards to die for

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nor ambitious enough to carve out a career within the regime's apparatus

cello and piano (1973) comes from Rota's last creative period and has all the characteristics of his mature works

All illusions are shed as the truth is revealed