(Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz) [WEB] Dayna Stephens - I'll Take My Chances (Charles Altura, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Bill Stewart, Becca Stevens) - 2013, FLAC (tracks), lossless

Post-bop-influenced jazz saxophonist and composer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dayna-stephens-mn0000672682/biography
Artist Biography by Matt Collar
Jazz saxophonist and composer Dayna Stephens is an adept post-bop-influenced musician who has worked with a bevy of heavy-hitting jazz artists. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephens attended both the Berklee School of Music and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz before embarking on his professional career. He has performed and recorded with such artists as Phil Ranelin, Taylor Eigsti, Sachal Vasandani, Gerald Clayton, and Gretchen Parlato, among others. As a leader, he debuted in 2007 with The Timeless Now and followed up with 2012's Today Is Tomorrow.
Around this time, Stephens revealed that he had been diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSG), a disease that attacks the kidneys and requires regular dialysis treatments and, in Stephens' case, a long-term need for a kidney transplant. Despite his struggles with FSG, he continued to perform and record, releasing two albums in 2013, That Nepenthetic Place and I'll Take My Chances. A year later he delivered Peace, featuring guitarist Julian Lage, pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Eric Harland. He then joined fellow saxophonist Walter Smith III for 2015's sextet date Reminiscent. In 2017 Stephens reunited with Mehldau, Grenadier, and Harland for Gratitude.

https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1361.html
Tenor saxophonist Dayna Stephens is poised, poetic and furiously swinging on his second "Criss Cross" effort, "I'll Take My Chances", a follow-up to his remarkable 2012 release "Today Is Tomorrow". The quintet features guitarist Charles Altura, a newcomer to "Criss Cross" and a key melodic and solo voice throughout. Pianist Gerald Clayton, returning to "Criss Cross" after sideman sessions with Kendrick Scott and Michael Rodriguez, brings keen virtuosity and harmonic insight to Stephens' challenging, deeply lyrical compositions. Bassist Joe Sanders, who issued "Introducing Joe Sanders" on "Criss Cross" in 2012, achieves an effortless sense of connection with drummer Bill Stewart, a veteran of over 20 "Criss Cross" sessions, not to mention one of the great influential players of the last 20 years. Along with 5 originals, "Field Of Landmines" by Stephens and Marcus Gilmore, "Adrift" by Aaron Parks (the pianist on "Today Is Tomorrow") and a hard-swinging reinvention of Brad Mehldau's "Unrequited", Stephens also includes a rhapsodic treatment of Ellington's "Prelude To A Kiss", featuring guest vocalist Becca Stevens. There's also a striking departure: a track with Clayton on Hammond B-3 Organ and the leader on husky, soul-drenched baritone saxophone.

Dayna Stephens - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone (4);
Charles Altura - guitar;
Gerald Clayton - piano, Hammond B-3 organ (4);
Joe Sanders - bass;
Bill Stewart - drums;
Becca Stevens - vocals (6)