Jazz Articles about Rob Mazurek

Sao Paulo Underground: Sauna: Um, Dois, Tres

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 5, 2006

Spostando la linea di latitudine decisamente verso sud - un po' come succedeva girando la grande manopola delle vecchie radio satellitari - il variegato progetto “Underground" guidato dalla cornetta di Rob Mazurek è approdato in Brasile, nazione in cui il musicista americano risiede da qualche tempo. Ecco dunque che da Chicago giungiamo a questo sorprendente Sao Paulo Underground, in cui Mazurek è affiancato dal percussionista e musicista elettronico brasiliano Mauricio Takara, tra le figure trasversali più intriganti della fervida scena ...

Chicago Underground Duo: In Praise of Shadows

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 7, 2006

Sin dai loro primi lavori il Chicago Underground Duo è apparso come un nucleo sonoro - da cui si dipartono ulteriori infiorescenze strumentali, dal trio all'orchestra - quasi archetipico, una fusione che facendo toccare gli estremi dello sciamanico e del tecnologico si è proposta come minimo comune denominatore di una vasta serie di esigenze espressive, dalla scena post-rock in cui si sono formati alla spiritualità diretta del duo Cherry-Blackwell, passando per l'elettronica kraut e lambendo anche i prati di canterbury. ...

Rob Mazurek: Mandarin Movie

by Budd Kopman
April 16, 2005

Rob Mazurek is a multifaceted artist who explores not only music but also painting and multimedia. His work reflects ideas posited by John Cage about the continuum from music to noise, but Mazurek is allied with the “underground," and Mandarin Movie might be called prog-industrial or prog-techno music, sort of analagous to prog-rock or grunge-rock. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but much of the record is engulfed in layers of extreme distortion, and it felt to ...

Rob Mazurek/Mandarin Movie: Mandarin Movie

by Mark Corroto
April 15, 2005

Besides being a musician, cornetist Rob Mazurek is also a visual artitst. The member of Tigersmilk, Isotope 217, and the Chicago Underground Duo, Trio, Quartet, and Orchestra also paints and constructs multimedia installations.

Mandarin Movie draws as much from the musical aspects of his personality as the painterly ones. His band Mandarin Movie, whose name comes from a dream of rooftop flying saucers, creates layer upon layer of sound. Some of it is music, some is noise. But ...

Trumpeter Rob Mazurek

by Ludwig vanTrikt
July 15, 2004

Rob Mazurek is one of jazz's most enigmatic improvisers. A former hard bopper who now dabbles beyond the avant-garde in elements of “musique concrete" and multi-media. Mazurek is a Chicagoan but a world traveler now residing in Brazil (with his wife). Beneath the surface contradictions lies an artists' vision that is at once restless and well honed.

His discography includes Orton Socket (electronica and sound manipulation) and the ever expanding conceptual group Chicago Underground Duo/Trio/Quartet Orchestra along with the post ...

Rob Mazurek: Silver Spines

by Mark F. Turner
October 6, 2002

Highly improvised and experimental music can be more challenging for the listener than the musician.

When you first insert Silver Spines, you may be tricked into thinking you're having technical difficulty with your player and or disc; but this is not the case. The first selection, “Moving Through and Back Again," enters your aural arena as a succession of fragmented cornet notes which then evolves into a variety of electronic sampled sounds. The next selection features Mazurek delivering a cornet ...

Robert Mazurek: Playground

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1998

This is an interesting and varied session, one for which chief planner Rob Mazurek deserves no less than a solid “e" for effort. Mazurek, whose main ax is cornet, has plowed under his hard-boppin' roots and started afresh on a Playground that more closely conforms to his evolving musical perspective. Mazurek is accompanied on the odyssey by his Chicago Underground Orchestra, whose members double (or triple) to help provide the proper ambiance. In making the turnaround Mazurek has abandoned neither ...