Jimmy Ponder - Somebody's Child - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Jimmy Ponder - Alone [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/21/2003

Put Pittsburgh guitarist Jimmy Ponder in a recording studio & he acts like a magnet attracting the best names in jazz - Don Braden, John Hicks, Dwayne Dolphin & Cecil Brooks III join him, swinging, dreaming, grooving & making beautiful bossa nova - the session combines the excitement of a club date with the control of the studio & shows why the Pittsburgh Post Gazette hailed Jimmy as Inchthe Segovia of jazzInch.

For his fourth Criss Cross outing as a leader, trumpeter Jim Rotondi has chosen the two-horns-plus rhythm , presenting a program of compositions by Cedar Walton, Joe Henderson, Jimmy Rowles, Walter Davis Jr., Carole King & others, including one of his own works. Joining Jim are some of the finest players of the New York jazz scene - fellow Criss Cross artists Mike DiRubbo, Anthony Wonsey, John Webber & Willie Jones III.