Jim Rotondi - New Vistas [CD]

Jim Rotondi's fifth Criss Cross album frames the trumpeter's golden tone in a new context - to be specific, longtime Criss Cross guitar-organ team Peter Bernstein and Sam Yahel, omniscient drummer Bill Stewart, and protean tenor saxman Chris Potter. The program alternates white-hot and mellow feels in equal measure - everything is sustained by the inner flame of swing.