UNANIMOUS

$20.21
Label
CRISS CROSS
Release Date
February 21, 2012
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      OWENS, ULYSSES JR
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 21, 2012
    • UPC
      8712474134229
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CSS1342.2
    • LABEL
      CRISS CROSS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Good and Terrible

      Composer: Michael Dease

      Performer: Ulysses Owens Jr., Nicholas Payton, Michael Dease, Jaleel Shaw, Christian Sands, Christian McBride

    2. Con Alma

      Composer: Dizzy Gillespie

      Performer: Ulysses Owens Jr., Nicholas Payton, Michael Dease, Jaleel Shaw, Christian Sands, Christian McBride

    3. E.S.P.

      Composer: Wayne Shorter

      Performer: Ulysses Owens Jr., Nicholas Payton, Christian Sands, Christian McBride

    4. Prototype

      Composer: André 3000

      Performer: Ulysses Owens Jr., Nicholas Payton, Christian Sands, Christian McBride

    5. Party Time

      Composer: Lee Morgan

      Performer: Ulysses Owens Jr., Nicholas Payton, Jaleel Shaw, Christian Sands, Christian McBride

    6. Beardom X

      Composer: Ulysses Owens Jr.

      Performer: Ulysses Owens Jr., Jaleel Shaw, Christian Sands, Christian McBride

    7. Three Little Girls in Blue: You Make Me Feel So Young

      Composer: Josef Myrow

      Performer: Ulysses Owens Jr., Christian Sands, Christian McBride

    8. Cherokee

      Composer: Ray Noble

      Performer: Ulysses Owens Jr., Christian Sands, Christian McBride

    9. Cute and Sixy

      Composer: Christian McBride

      Performer: Ulysses Owens Jr., Christian Sands, Christian McBride


Still on the shy side of 30, Ulysses Owens Jr.. has garnered an international reputation as drummer of choice for Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton, and Kurt Elling, three very different personalities who are very particular in what they want to hear from the kit. On his Criss Cross leader debut, Owens Jr.. convenes McBride and Payton, as well as pianist Christian Sands (even more visible for his work in McBride's year-old-trio), rising star alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw (Roy Haynes' main sax voice for the last five years), and trombonist Mike Dease. The leader finds fresh approaches to various flavors of the swing timeline - Art Blakey and the refraction's of Buhaina established by Mulgrew Miller and Bobby Watson (each a one-time employer); Tony Williams' two phases with the Miles Davis Quintet; Ed Thigpen's crispness with the Oscar Peterson Trio - within a 21st century context.