Jonathan Kreisberg - Night SongsGuitarist Jonathan Kreisberg offers up an intriguing ballad session with Night Songs, his third Criss Cross release since 2004's Nine Stories Wide. The mood is decidedly lush and spacious, and features truly unique takes on a range of familiar items as well as less played tunes such as Warm Valley and Nefertiti. The disc features his current trio with bassist Matt Penman and drummer Mark Ferber, and adds pianist Gary Versace for some quartet cuts as

I Needed You

with references to Horace Silver

a purveyor of pornographic prose

Collay and The Satellites sing about the cutie from the street

Rock Gutter welcomes us with it's heavy rhythm

and the piano's grand as well as close-up possibilities

a well known soloist

and based entirely on original material

including his first session with future MJQ colleague John Lewis

and Fabian Müller is well aware of this

even a sort of looseness hereand there

with an utterly limpid lute and the velvet tone-color of Andreas Scholl