Label: Criss Cross
Format: LP 12inch
Barcode: 8712474241026
Catalog number: CRISSLP 1410
Releasedate: 18-08-23
Format: LP 12inch
Barcode: 8712474241026
Releasedate: 18-08-23
- Mike Moreno’s fourth Criss Cross album
- -First time on vinyl
- -First time on vinyl
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.