Sherisse Rogers

Sherisse Rogers's Project Uprising: Sleight of Hand

by Jack Bowers
March 5, 2005

After receiving for review a copy of Sherisse Rogers' debut album, Sleight of Hand, I remembered having seen her at the IAJE conference last January in Long Beach, CA, conducting “Chacagliatu,"? one of the selections from the album, which earned top honors for an emerging composer in the IAJE/ASCAP Commissions honoring Count Basie, in spite of its being about as stylistically removed from Basie as one could imagine--much closer to, say, Gil Evans, Carla Bley, Maria Schneider or Jamie Begian. ...