Across the Crystal Sea
Download links and information about Across the Crystal Sea by Claus Ogerman, Danilo Perez. This album was released in 2008 and it belongs to Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Latin genres. It contains 8 tracks with total duration of 57:41 minutes.
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| Artist: | Claus Ogerman, Danilo Perez |
| Release date: | 2008 |
| Genre: | Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Latin |
| Tracks: | 8 |
| Duration: | 57:41 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | Across the Crystal Sea | 7:15 |
| 2. | Rays and Shadows | 4:42 |
| 3. | Lazy Afternoon (featuring Cassandra Wilson) | 6:38 |
| 4. | The Purple Condor | 8:40 |
| 5. | If I Forget You | 5:37 |
| 6. | (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings (featuring Cassandra Wilson) | 7:43 |
| 7. | The Saga of Rita Joe | 7:39 |
| 8. | Another Autumn | 9:27 |
Details
[Edit]The Panamanian-born pianist Danilo Perez has been a force in jazz since the 1990s. He’s played with Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, and others, and has released a number of albums as a leader. On this 2008 album, he teams up with the well-known composer and arranger Claus Ogerman for an incredibly lush set inspired by Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra, an Ogerman project from the 1960s. Across the Crystal Sea is an exquisite work. The balance between the jazz quartet — Perez, bassist Christian McBride, drummer Lewis Nash, and percussionist Luis Quintero — and the orchestra is just right, and the overall sound is great. (Veteran Tommy LiPuma produced.) Several pieces are based on themes by classical composers such as Manuel de Falla, Jean Sibelius, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The standout title track, based on a work by the German composer Hugo Distler, sports crackling percussion that lends Ogerman’s arrangement a nice edge. Vocalist Cassandra Wilson appears on two cuts and she’s absolutely stunning. On “(All of a sudden) My Heart Sings,” she floats on the music like a dream, and “Lazy Afternoon” combines eerie strings with Wilson’s vocals to create a sense of mystery that borders on the otherworldly.