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Jack Wright: As Is: Solos from Beirut and Barcelona

Read "As Is: Solos from Beirut and Barcelona" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 14, 2006

Dear Mr. Jack Wright,

Please don't sell out your ideals for a quick dollar. With the increasing interest in free jazz improvisation, don't license you music to club DJs for a remix project. If you get an offer, don't do a standards record, a Jack Wright With Strings recording, or a duet session with Tony Bennett, Bono or David Hasselhoff.

Signed, A dedicated listener

Certainly I jest, but indeed the global market ...

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Jack Wright / Carol Genetti / Jon Mueller: Nom Tom

by Mark Corroto
December 16, 2005

Jack Wright continues to be the greatest free jazz saxophonist you've never heard. But that is his calling, not his choice. He travels the land playing for audiences of two to two hundred, can teach a very inspired history lesson, or scramble some eggs. It makes no difference to him. Wright chose his path long ago, placing creativity above popularity, sound generation above melody.

Recently, more artists have come forward with similar ideas of improvisation. Together they are ...