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$20.21
Label
CRISS CROSS
Release Date
February 15, 2011
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      OKUN, YAKOV
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 15, 2011
    • UPC
      8712474133420
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CSS1334.2
    • LABEL
      CRISS CROSS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Pent-Up Chaos

      Composer: Sonny Rollins, Yakov Okun

      Performer: Yakov Okun, Ben Street, Billy Drummond

    2. Kind Bug

      Composer: Antonio Emmanuilovich Spadavecchia

      Performer: Yakov Okun, Ben Street, Billy Drummond

    3. Spillikins

      Composer: Yakov Okun

      Performer: Yakov Okun, Ben Street, Billy Drummond

    4. Jitterbug Waltz

      Composer: Fats Waller

      Performer: Yakov Okun, Ben Street, Billy Drummond

    5. Eric Dolphy's Tomb

      Composer: Yakov Okun

      Performer: Yakov Okun, Ben Street, Billy Drummond

    6. Der blaue Engel: Falling in love again

      Composer: Friedrich Hollaender

      Performer: Yakov Okun, Ben Street, Billy Drummond

    7. Plain Jane

      Composer: Sonny Rollins

      Performer: Yakov Okun, Ben Street, Billy Drummond

    8. Giant Steps

      Composer: John Coltrane

      Performer: Yakov Okun, Ben Street, Billy Drummond

    9. Heaven

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Yakov Okun, Ben Street, Billy Drummond


A major force in Russian jazz since the mid '90's, pianist Yakov Okun, finally places himself on the international stage with his Criss Cross debut, a trio date with world-class bass-drum team Ben Street and Billy Drummond on which he mixes challenging original material with strong arrangements and less traveled songbook repertoire and tunes by Sonny Rollins, and Fats Waller. At 38, Okun is an individualistic voice, an important player, able in his improvisations to refract an entire timeline of jazz vocabulary in a cogent, compositional manner.