Label: Criss Cross
Format: CD
Barcode: 8712474141029
Catalog number: CRISS 1410
Releasedate: 11-11-22
Format: CD
Barcode: 8712474141029
Catalog number: CRISS 1410
Releasedate: 11-11-22
- Mike Moreno’s fourth Criss Cross album
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Like a well – wrought character in a Hollywood movie, Standards From Film, guitarist Mike Moreno’s fourth Criss Cross album, exists atop a solid, cogent
back story. Recorded in December 2021, when the world and New York City – Houston-born Moreno’s home for more than two decades – were no
longer on COVID lockdown, it documents the leader’s exhaustive investigations into the provenance of ten iconic standards that, as he puts it, “are the summer jazz workshop tunes” – they say you have to learn these songs if you want to be a jazz musician. You learn them very young or in the beginning days of your journey into this music.
back story. Recorded in December 2021, when the world and New York City – Houston-born Moreno’s home for more than two decades – were no
longer on COVID lockdown, it documents the leader’s exhaustive investigations into the provenance of ten iconic standards that, as he puts it, “are the summer jazz workshop tunes” – they say you have to learn these songs if you want to be a jazz musician. You learn them very young or in the beginning days of your journey into this music.