Grant Stewart - Grants Stewart + 4Grant Stewart's third Criss Cross date as a leader features the spirited interplay between the tenor saxophonist and his longtime band mate, guitarist Joe Cohn. Stewart's brawny, expressive solos contrast nicely with Cohn's fleet yet temperate lines. Supported by an active rhythm section, including star pianist Bill Charlap, bassist Paul Gill, and drummer Willie Jones III, Stewart and Cohn burn through a program of standards, plus an original

the album was their first to feature a permanent keyboard player in the band and gave a nod to what was to come

Paul Schalda is a poet

They have played at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Inner City Youth Orchestra of LA and with recording artist Dion at Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek's Reflection Eternal concert at the Belasco Theater

piano and drums - is the album's sole live recording

And Complete Mountain Almanac stands as testimony to their raw uncovering - an ode to rejuvenation

'to do a fine thing finely'

and Bonny Dunning as vocalists

when Reinecke was serving as a young and brilliantly accomplished court pianist in Copenhagen

and as a record producer and session musician

who lived between Parma and Venice and was active not only as a great organ virtuoso

I have chosen from the works of five special women for this album

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