Jazz Articles about Corpulent

Corpulent: Wolfwalk

by Ollie Bivens
January 26, 2006

Although jazz comprises no more than 4% of CD sales nationally, there exists a cornucopia of good to excellent jazz musicians--female vocalists, pianists, and saxophonists especially. You can put 44-year-old Baltimore native Gary Thomas in the “excellent" column. Having played with trumpeters Miles Davis and Wallace Roney, Thomas is currently the Director of Jazz Studies at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. At the time of the Wolfwalk recording in June of last ...

Corpulent: Wolfwalk

by Mark Corroto
November 16, 2005

Nobody asks you to take part in a revolution or overturn the status quo. I guess you just believe things should be different (maybe better?) and you jump in. Sometimes to your detriment, sometimes to glory. I'm not talking about the world trade talks, I speak of jazz revolutions, from swing to bebop, the “new thing," fusion, and nu bop.

In the eighties, the response to Wynton Marsalis' new conservatism (sorry, that wasn't a revolution) brought about the ...