Misha Tsiganov- The Artistry Of The Standard (Criss Cross 2014)
For his Criss Cross debut, pianist Misha Tsiganov presents a program of
ten 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. http://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1367.html