George Colligan - Past-Present-FutureAfter presenting a program of gnarly originals for quartet on "Ultimatum" (CRC #1222), his Criss Cross debut, pianist George Colligan offers a beautifully paced trio recital. Mixing well wrought originals with iconic standards like "Sophistcated Lady" and "Body and Soul" and such less traveled repertoire as "Holiday for Strings" and "Three Views of a Secret," Colligan again displays the musicality and personal perspective that have marked his oeuvre

you will learn to liberate poses that are often rigidly held

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hallucinatory compositions

a band with the song-crafting chops and spirit to take familiar elements and create for themselves a fresh new sound

so that the music necessarily becomes much lighter and more transparent

Sebastian Manz is accompanied on the piano by Herbert Schuch

the scoring of alto flute

Pianist Red Camp

Battles were fought

and Norah Jones

they're back

This is the kind of songwriting I've always been drawn to