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The Free Musics by Jack Wright
by Daniel Barbiero
The Free Musics Jack Wright 316 Pages ISBN: 1537777246 Spring Garden Music Editions 2017 Saxophonist Jack Wright's first encounter with free jazz occurred in 1967, when a chance meeting with Charlie Haden resulted in Wright's being invited to see Haden play with Ornette Coleman. Wright, who had been a conventional jazz saxophonist, describes the music as having struck him as chaotic" and the experience as having been traumatic." Nevertheless, five years later he ...
read moreJack Wright/John M. Bennett/Ben Bennett: Rotty What
by Mark Corroto
Note to my editor: do not attempt a spell check of this review, as much of the language presented on Rotty What won't be found in any modern language dictionaries.
That's the ticket here: full frontal nudity. Well, substitute spontaneous combustion for the naked parts, and you have an idea what you are in for when poet/mail artist/writer/publisher John Bennett collaborates with saxophonist Jack Wright. This self-produced CD-R documents a mini-tour and performance by the pair with John's son, Ben ...
read moreJack Wright: The Indeterminate Existence
by Mark Corroto
The liner notes to The Indeterminate Existence, penned by Jack Wright, indicate that he no longer plays music like what can be heard on these seven tracks from the years 1988-98. While I might disagree, I will note that any occasion Wright steps onto a stage, you will hear something new, conceived and created in that moment.
The seven solo pieces Wright refers to here are all physically demanding note-after-note marathons. What Wright refers to in his liner ...
read moreJack Wright: As Is: Solos from Beirut and Barcelona
by Mark Corroto
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 ...
read moreJack Wright / Carol Genetti / Jon Mueller: Nom Tom
by Mark Corroto
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 ...
read moreJack Wright & Bob Falesch: Clang
by Mark Corroto
With much admiration, I have followed the very uncompromising career of saxophonist Jack Wright. His dedication to his outer-fringes (not even THE outer-fringes) of music have corralled his music into the margins, the proverbial footnote-to-the-footnote of history. Jack explores the music beyond that of Evan Parker and Mats Gustafsson. He reinvents the honk, the squeak, and the growl as musical conversations. Mr. Wright’s performances are frequently room clearing, or just as often standing ovations. His music is heady, intellectual, coarse ...
read moreJack Wright: Places To Go
by Mark Corroto
By Anthony Braxton’s definition, Jack Wright is a very dangerous man. Not danger as in hazards, but dangerous as in possibilities. Braxton classifies musicians as traditionalists (retro-New Orleans), stylists (all those hard-bop clones), and restructuralists (Charlie Parker, John Cage, Sun Ra). The restructualist Wright, like Parker in his time, is walking the precipice of creative music. Working new sonic boundaries, not readily acceptable to the average listener (or even average jazz listener). Wright works on the outer edge of improvisation, ...
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