Organist
Melvin Rhyne
's sixth
Criss Cross
release,
Classmasters
, finds him once again in the hard swinging company of guitarist
Peter Bernstein
, saxophonist
Eric Alexander
, and drummer
Kenny Washington
. These musicians breeze through two cuts a piece by
Michel Legrand
and
Mccoy Tyner
, along with the compositions of
Coltrane
,
Monk
Stanley Turrentine
Billie Holiday
, and
Cole Porter
.
"The Rhyne Original Rhyne, Rhythm and Song"
rounds out this modern blues and bebop set. ~ Al Campbell