Returning

For his fifth Criss Cross recording, trumpeter Alex Sipiagin assembles a top-shelf quintet of generational peers, all colleagues who rank at the top of the pack on their respective instruments, to play a programme of original music. The mood is melodic, polyphonic, rhythically intense, more simmering than fiery, defined by Sipiagin's burnished, golden sound, the individualistic voice-like statements of tenorist Seamus Blake and guitarist Adam Rogers, and the intuitive accompaniment of bassist Scott Colley and drummer Antonio Sanchez. Two of the tunes were specially written for this date by world famous guitarist Pat Metheny. Tracks: Returning / Extra Chance / Miniature / Pictures / Snova / Son Of Thirteen / Turn Out The Stars .