Alex Sipiagin - Mirages (CD)

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'stimeline. 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 Jonathan Blake.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. One for Mike I
2. Mirages
3. Live Score
4. Levitin's Kingdom
5. Just One of Those Things
6. Tetragon
7. Iris
8. One for Mike II