On the Verge by Rose, Adonis (CD, 2007)

Creative Services Software, Criss Cross

8712474129423

26046056704

CD

2007

Jazz

Rose, Adonis

On the Verge

0.41 in

0.21 lb

5.74 in

4.98 in

8

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1.1 Robin in Pink I 1.2 Liyah's Blues 1.3 Lies in Beauty 1.4 Shed 1.5 Gingerbread Boy 1.6 Robin in Pink II 1.7 On the Verge 1.8 Shades of Light

Burnouts, 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 the proceedings with fluid, precisely executed grooves, dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's.