Danny Grissett

Ferit Odman - Dameronia with Strings (2015) {Equinox Music EMCD0024}
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Jazz / Cool Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Post Bop

Jazz drummer Ferit Odman's third album, 'Dameronia With Strings' is a tribute to Tadd Dameron and is now available on CD. The remarkably sensitive played session by Ferit Odman, Terell Stafford, Peter Washington and Danny Grissett both as a band and ace soloists lets us dream up high above the sky together with a well-balanced, swinging string sextet and beautiful arrangements by David O'Rourke.

Vincent Herring is complemented by rising young trumpeter Jeremy Pelt on this enjoyable studio date. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" is a standard from the swing era, though the quintet translates it into a hard bop vehicle very well, with the leader throwing in a quick reference to another song ("Kerry Dance") from long ago. Herring is a bit playful in his treatment of the ballad "You Leave Me Breathless," while he handles McCoy Tyner's explosive "Four by Five" with finesse. But most of the session is devoted to originals by the band. Bassist Richie Goods contributed the funky, infectious "Citizen of Zamunda," which showcases the leader on his dancing soprano sax. Pianist Danny Grissert, who evidently made his recording debut with this CD, not only proves himself as a capable soloist, but also penned the exciting "Hopscotch" (marked by its use of stop time) and the tense "Encounters."

Inspiration is trombonist/composer/bandleader Phil Ranelin's first self-led studio date in eight years. His last, A Close Encounter of the Very Best Kind, was solid and wonderfully articulated and arranged, but was criminally under-recognized. Ranelin's star has been on the rise again in recent years with renewed interest in his recordings on Detroit's legendary Tribe Records imprint (which he co-founded)–reissued on the Hefty and P-VIne labels. Wide Hive has given Ranelin free rein in creating this tribute to his mentors and peers.

A fixture on the New York scene since 2003, when he accepted a scholarship at the Juilliard School of Music, Norwegian guitarist Lage Lund, who won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2005, displays what the fuss is about on his Criss Cross debut. Framing his beautiful sound and keen sense of line are a group of young New York first-callers - Marcus Strickland, tenor saxophone; Danny Grissett, piano; Orlando Le Fleming, bass, and Kendrick Scott, drums.

A tribute to Miles Davis. The music of an icon, re-imagined, with elements from modern jazz and orchestral arrangements by Magnus Lindgren and Hans Ek. Featuring US-American trumpeter Theo Croker and his quartet and members of the Berliner Philharmoniker.