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Mark Corroto
Since: 1999 | Position: Senior Contributor | Reviews Albums | Location: Columbus | Page Views: 183,512 
About Me
Mark misses his dogs Louie & Freddy, but endeavors daily to find and listen to new and interesting sounds.
At first told he was raised by gypsies, later found it was wolves, Mark discovered jazz by way of Raymond Scott and Carl Stalling's music for Warner Brothers' cartoons. Early on he wondered why the saxophone solos on Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon and Van Morrison's Moondance were so bad. “You're a jazz critic, that's why” a friendly drifter told him. Mark packed his bags and waited for a passenger train to the Big Apple, only to find the train station boarded up. He's lived in Ohio ever since.
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My Jazz Story
I love jazz because besides descending a
mountain on a road bicycle at 55 mph or a
glass of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano,
nothing makes my endorphins rush like an
Albert Ayler or Mats Gustafsson solo.
I was first exposed to jazz watching Warner
Brother's cartoons.
I met Peter Brotzmann in 1991 at a show in
Youngstown, Ohio. He was (to my surprise)
such a gentle soul, and inspiring artist.
The best show I ever attended was... hmm...
that's a hard one, either the Sun Ra Arkestra
1989, Naked City 1993, or Randy Weston
ensemble 1987, maybe Sonny Rollins in
New York 1993, or was it The Thing 2003?
Maybe Matt Wilson's Quartet last year.
The first jazz record I bought was Weather
Report's Mysterious Traveller.
My advice to new listeners...Don't ask me if
this particular recording is good jazz, if YOU
like it it's good jazz, if YOU don't it isn't
good jazz.
Jazz is about exploring, connecting the dots:
Miles Davis played with John Coltrane and
Charlie Parker (who started bebop) -
But also made funky electric music, and
Carlos Santana recorded Coltrane's Love
Supreme with John McLaughlin, who played
with Miles and Miles' drummer Tony
Williams, which might be the first fusion.
Everyone references Louis Armstrong, who's
career paralleled bebop but wasn't bebop,
although Dizzy Gillespie, another bebop
originator was quite taken and inspired by
Satchmo. The threads running between
players and styles cross and loop endlessly.
There is a lifetime of study (that's a bad
word), I mean enjoyment as chasing the dots
and connections.
My House Concert Story
we have held house concerts with Bobby Selvaggio, Martin Wind & Philip Catherine, Spin Cycle, and even hosted Peter Brotzmann and Jason
Adaciewicz at a local university.
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