I'LL TAKE MY CHANCES

$20.21
Label
CRISS CROSS
Release Date
September 17, 2013
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      STEPHENS, DAYNA
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 17, 2013
    • UPC
      8712474136124
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CSS1361.2
    • LABEL
      CRISS CROSS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Good Tree, Good Fruit

      Composer: Dayna Stephens

      Performer: Dayna Stephens, Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart

    2. JFK International

      Composer: Dayna Stephens

      Performer: Dayna Stephens, Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart

    3. Adrift

      Composer: Aaron Parks

      Performer: Dayna Stephens, Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart

    4. Dirty

      Composer: Dayna Stephens

      Performer: Dayna Stephens, Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart

    5. Unrequited I

      Composer: Brad Mehldau

      Performer: Dayna Stephens, Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart

    6. Prelude to a Kiss

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Becca Stevens, Dayna Stephens, Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart

    7. Field of Landmines

      Composer: Dayna Stephens, Marcus Gilmore

      Performer: Dayna Stephens, Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart

    8. I'll Take My Chances

      Composer: Dayna Stephens

      Performer: Dayna Stephens, Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart

    9. Weezy

      Composer: Dayna Stephens

      Performer: Dayna Stephens, Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart

    10. Unrequited II

      Composer: Brad Mehldau

      Performer: Dayna Stephens, Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart


Tenor saxophonist Dayna Stephens is poised, poetic and furiously swinging on his second Criss Cross effort, I'll Take My Chances, a follow-up to his remarkable 2012 release Today Is Tomorrow. The quintet features guitarist Charles Altura, a newcomer to Criss Cross and a key melodic and solo voice throughout. Pianist Gerald Clayton, returning to Criss Cross after sideman sessions with Kendrick Scott and Michael Rodriguez, brings keen virtuosity and harmonic insight to Stephens' challenging, deeply lyrical compositions. Bassist Joe Sanders, whose issued Introducing Joe Sanders on Criss Cross in 2012, achieves an effortless sense of connection with drummer Bill Stewart, a veteran of over 20 Criss Cross sessions, not to mention one of the great influential players of the last 20 years. Along with 5 originals, Field of Landmines by Stephens and Marcus Gilmore, Adrift by Aaron Parks (the pianist on Today Is Tomorrow) and a hard-swinging reinvention of Brad Mehldau's Unrequited, Stephens also includes a rhapsodic treatment of Ellington's Prelude to a Kiss, featuring guest vocalist Becca Stevens. There's also a striking departure: A track with Clayton on organ and the leader on husky, soul-drenched baritone sax.