Adonis Rose - On the VergeBurnouts, ballads and the blues coexist felicitously on drummer Adonis Rose's third Criss Cross date, on the Verge. As he did on Song for Donise and the Unity, the New Orleans born drummer deploys former boss Nicholas Payton and ex Payton Quintet members, tenorist Tim Warfield and bassist Reuben Rogers, augmenting the group with pianist Aaron Goldberg and vibraphonist Warren Wolf, his former front line partners in Payton's quintet. Rose knits together

and easily overlooked when leaving the lyric sheet and credits on the dining room table

this project is a reminder

Daniel keeps telling me how he sat at the piano with his grandfather and played "Der Leiermann"

and Johnny Cash

a 1941 feature-length Charters and Caldicott adventure 2

The B-side

Anna Besson is a flautist with a passion for traditional music

Daniel Gubelmann's trademark is his lyrical saxophone sound

Recitals at previous seasons in New York

The relation of the suite to the rest of the opera music results from the circumstance that here too the rhythm of the Furlana (dance from the Friuli region) is omnipresent

and a highly entertaining showcase for her unique talent as a pop and R&B song stylist

" performed by James Bergman