Misha Tsiganov - The Artistry of the Standard (2014, Full Album, Criss Cross 1367)
00:00 (1) Fall (Wayne Shorter) 7:41
07:41 (2) Get Out Of Town (Cole Porter) 9:19
17:00 (3) The Song Is You (Jerome Kern) 7:04
24:04 (4) Ah-Leu-Cha (Charlie Parker) 7:01
31:06 (5) This Is For Albert (Wayne Shorter) 5:35
36:40 (6) Four On Six (Wes Montgomery) 6:37
43:20 (7) Falling In Love With Love (Richard Rodgers) 7:47
51:08 (8) Mr. Day (John Coltrane) 6:41
57:49 (9) Make Sure You're Sure (Stevie Wonder) 6:52
Total Time: 64:42
Misha Tsiganov (P)
Alex Sipiagin (Tp / Flh)
Seamus Blake (Ts)
Boris Kozlov (B)
Donald Edwards (D)
Recorded January 11, 2013 in Paramus, NJ, USA by Tom Tedesco
For his Criss Cross debut, pianist Misha Tsiganov presents a program of nine reimagined songs culled from both the Great American Songbook and the lexicon of post-bop hardcore jazz.
Born in St. Petersburg in the former USSR, and a New Yorker since the mid-90s, Tsiganov convenes a unit of virtuosos to animate his stimulating charts - trumpeter Alex Sipiagin (himself the leader of 10 Criss Cross dates and a participant on two by the collective group Opus 5) and bassist Boris Kozlov, both fellow sons of Russia, A-list tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake, and the kinetic drummer Donald Edwards.