This Is Criss!

This Is Criss! Artist: Sonny Criss
Label: Ojc
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 025218643023
EAN: 0025218643023
ASIN: B000000YNQ


Release Date: 1991-07-01

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Listmania:

  1. Best Albums of 1966
  2. Sonny Criss' Best CDs: My Picks, in Order
  3. Friends of mine in the bebop biz
  4. Beyond Critic's Jazz Top Ten

Tracks:

  1. Black Coffee
  2. Days Of Wine And Roses
  3. When Sunny Gets Blue
  4. Greasy
  5. Sunrise, Sunset
  6. Steve's Blues
  7. Skylark
  8. Love For Sale

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  1. The Complete Imperial Sessions
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  4. Portrait of Sonny Criss
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Pleasure Cooker!!!!.......2006-03-07

I would rate this one higher than 5 stars if I could. Sonny Criss felt a soulful depth in his music. From the opening number "Black Coffee" to the (bonus track) finale "Love For Sale", we are fortunate to have the experience of these sessions on cd. Sonny's version of "Sunrise, Sunset" is incomparable. Every song on this cd is sweet!! If you love 60's sax/accoustic jazz you need to have this one in your collection.

5 out of 5 stars Solid album by an undervalued altoist........2000-08-13

One of the great overlooked jazz albums of the sixties by one of the great overlooked alto players of the post-war era. "Black Coffee," "Greasy," and "Skylark" are standouts but the whole album is excellent, with Criss in top form throughout. His style was a satisfying amalgam of the bluesy, the lyric, and the dazzlingly convoluted. One wonders what would have happened if he had done an album with Sonny Stitt (if they did, I haven't seen it.)

5 out of 5 stars This recording is Sonny Criss in top form........1999-10-24

This is Criss highlights Sonny Criss at the peak of his playing. In particular, his performance of Black Coffee is unparallelled, and displays Sonny at the top of his form, utitlizing both his virtuostic lightning technique along with his deep sense of the blues. The entire recording is worth it just for that one performance alone. One finds is hard to imagine listening to any other alto player after hearing Criss on this one. Kudos to Don Schlitten for yet another brilliant Sonny Criss recording for Prestige Records. Also, check out Walter Davis and his incredible piano playing, another feature of this superb disc.

Music CD:

  1. New York Trio - Page 3 ~ Peter Beets
  2. Hot ~ Maynard Ferguson
  3. Woody Herman-1963 Swingin'est Big Band Ever (25th Year-His Greatest) ~ Woody Herman
  4. Film Works, Vol. 15: Protocols of Zion
  5. Malak ~ Dhafer Youssef
  6. For Musicians Only ~ Stan Getz with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt
  7. An Evening With International Guitar Night ~ Various Artists
  8. Something Borrowed Something Blue ~ Tommy Flanagan
  9. Going Home ~ Bill Mays
  10. Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology 1958-1995 ~ Mongo Santamaria

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I'm Working ~ MC World & Girlz

They Make Beer Commercials Like This ~ Minus the Bear

Things & Other Things ~ Bobby Darin

Then and Now ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd

Live Bird '65-'67 ~ The Trashmen

One Step Ahead of the Blues ~ Chris Spedding

Exploding Girls ~ Gene Loves Jezebel

Vol. 5-Black Coffee

Where Do We Go from Here ~ Simple Pleasure

Each & Every Day ~ Kinfolk