Jazz Articles about Rob Mazurek

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...