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Whirled Jazz: Mukilteo
by Mark Corroto
Whirled Jazz is a band that produces music that is beyond an easy categorization. Take the title track from their recent release, Mikilteo, my mental picture was that of a reenactment of Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue session substituting Paul Desmond and Roswell Rudd as a front line. But “Mikilteo” and this session is more modern ...
Rob Blakeslee Quartet: Last Minute Gifts
by Mark Corroto
There is a conversation going on in jazz these days, and I’m not referring to the debate as to whether Ken Burns is the anti-Christ. I also am not referring to apparent contention raised by the PBS wonderboy that jazz, although dead (since 1962), makes a nice museum piece. The conversation I am refering to is ...
Chunks Of Zen
Label: Louie Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Chunks Of Zen: Flutter; Call From Down; Ahh; Delayed; Still Unchanged; Two Chunks Of Zen: Echoes Past; Seeking; Tapetum Paradiddledum; Down From Up; Our Numbers Are Dwindling.
The Tone Sharks: Chunks Of Zen
by Mark Corroto
Space is the place. Space, not as in Sonny Blount’s dissonant rockets, but space as part of improvisation. The Tone Sharks’ fifth release has plenty of space. The quintet addresses spontaneous composition not as an exercise in who can play the loudest (or longest) but sometimes who can contribute the most in the fewest notes. The ...
Boundry Issues: Beginnings And Endings
by Mark Corroto
There was something wrong with jazz-fusion of the 1970s and 80s. You could just instinctively feel it. But what was missing? After Miles Davis ushered in electric instruments (or was it the electrocution of jazz?) with Bitches Brew, the doors flew open to all sorts of characters. There was the electric violin of John Luc Ponty, ...
Rob Blakeslee: Waterloo Ice House
by Mark Corroto
Sometimes a jazz band will perform sans piano simply because the bar or hall doesn’t own one, or for a New Orleans funeral procession the reason is obvious. The choice not to record with an available piano is a conscious one. Take Ornette Coleman’s 1960 quartet, Sonny Rollins at The Village Vanguard 1957, or John Zorn’s ...
