John Escreet - Exception to the RuleJohn Escreet's Criss Cross debut is one of the singular recordings in the Criss Cross catalog. Out of Doncaster, England, and a New Yorker since 2006, the 26 year old pianist composer deploys the talents of New York first callers David Binney, who incorporates live electronics into the flow as well as his alto sax, Eivind Opsvik on bass, and Nasheet Waits on drums. Synthesizing a broad template of sources into his own sonic vision, Escreet presents a

sometimes unsettling

Reinhold Gliere is one of the least well-known in the West

and touring in Austria

You may call it darkwave

eventful life

My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves [Golden Smoke Vinyl] - It Still Moves 2021 repressing features remixed & remastered audio pressed on two "golden smoke" colored LP's and housed in a premium gatefold jacket

his music represents the culmination of a high Baroque style a little at odds with the more progressive aspirations of his younger contemporaries

They're from Austin

and Johann Fischer

they are musical and (now married) life partners

the brilliance of the then-teenaged bass phenom Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson and the rock-steady swing of drummer Art Taylor

among them Musica dolorosa and the violin concertos Distant Light and Lonely Angel