Jazz Articles about Bryan Carrott

About Bryan Carrott

Album Review

Marshall Crenshaw: From "The Hellhole"

Read "From "The Hellhole"" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
September 6, 2025

In something of a reflection of its sardonic title, Marshall Crenshaw's From “The Hellhole" is not an album of all-new, never-before-recorded original material. It consists instead of revamped versions of recordings the Detroit native 'completed' for release in various forms in recent years (not the least of which is the now out-of-print #392: The EP Collection (Red River, 2015). Like the remix of Rare Earth's Motown hit “I Just Want to Celebrate," the details of the reworkings of ...

Liner Notes

Reggie Nicholson: No Preservatives Added

by Howard Mandel
February 17, 2023

From cosmic gong signaling it's “Time to Reset" to bluesy combo asking that we “Say It Ain't So," Reggie Nicholson's Percussion Concept on No Preservatives Added makes music of real life and sonic imagination. Beats, breathes, cycles, syncopations and synchronizations--dances, stances, gestures, textures—rhythmic physicality and melodic extrapolation--expressive, engaging improvisations of a masterful team, that proceed by thought, feeling, and especially ear to unexpected places. These are ingredients of composer-percussionist Nicholson's seventh intriguing, original, self-produced album, which without artificiality seems timely ...

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Album Review

Ralph Peterson Fo'tet: The Fo'tet Plays Monk

Read "The Fo'tet Plays Monk" reviewed by Rick Bruner

by Rick Bruner
December 1, 1997

The music of Thelonious Monk has influenced the entire spectrum of modern jazz. Tributes to Monk's music have been recorded by a wide variety of artists, from vocalist Carmen McRae to saxophonist Steve Lacy and musical auteur Hal Wilner. The rather unique line-up of the Ralph Peterson Fo'tet (drums/sax/vibraphone/bass) is refreshing on this program of Monk and Monk-inspired material.The Fo'tet Plays Monk (Ralph Peterson, drums; Belden Bullock, bass; Bryan Carrott, vibraphone; Steve Wilson, soprano sax) brings an adventurous ...