Label: Criss Cross
Format: CD
Barcode: 8712474135028
Catalog number: CRISS 1350
Releasedate: 05-10-12
Format: CD
Barcode: 8712474135028
Releasedate: 05-10-12
- The band plays with deep imagination and virtuosic craft in this CD which is inspired by Salvador Dalí
- It's a meditation on how the iconic surrealist painter might have digested a stroll through Penn's Brooklyn neighborhood
- This is the long-awaited follow-up to his critically lauded 1996 Criss Cross debut, Penn's Landing, and the equally powerful Play-Penn, from 2001
On his long-awaited follow-up to his critically lauded 1996 Criss Cross debut, Penn's Landing (Criss 1134), and the equally powerful Play-Penn (Criss 1201), from 2001, master drummer-percussionist Clarence Penn presents Dali in Cobble Hill, a meditation on how the iconic Surrealist painter might have digested a stroll through Penn's Brooklyn neighborhood. The eight originals and two standards incorporate a variety of moods, flavors, and strategies that reflect Penn's extensive activity as a sideman for jazz' best-and-brightest over the past decades; his ensemble of grandmaster generational contemporaries --- Chris Potter on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, Adam Rogers on guitar, and Ben Street on bass --- inhabit the stories, playing with deep imagination and virtuosic craft. A must-hear.