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Enzo Favata Tentetto: The New Village
by Mark Corroto
The ancient and the modern is the theme of composer/saxophonist Enzo Favata's The New Village. Together with his Tentetto, he fuses traditional vocals from Sardinia, his home, with the American jazz lexicon. Unlike the cultural larceny of Paul Simon's Graceland (Warner, 1986), Favata's music coalesces into an ingenuous expression of music. The saxophonist has ...
Andrew Rathbun: Where Are We Now
by Mark Corroto
It is quite insouciant to categorize jazz musicians as either composers or players. But jazz devotees sometimes typecast artists as writers or interpreters of music. With a mature talent such as composer/saxophonist Andrew Rathbun, categorizing him in one camp or the other is unwarranted. With Where We Are Now, his tenth disc as leader, he displays ...
Rob Mazurek and Tortoise: New Chicago
by Mark Corroto
The “Chicago sound" may be a misnomer when used to describe the music of cornetist Rob Mazurek and the band Tortoise, but the unpretentious experimentalism of both sits foursquare in the city's musical tradition. Chicago has nurtured innovative artists from trumpeter Louis Armstrong through keyboardist Sun Ra. The Chicago-based AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative ...
Downtown Music Gallery A Summer Blockbuster Hit
by Mark Corroto
Imagine the opening credits to a summer blockbuster movie that starts out in space looking down at the earth. As the camera moves in you recognize North America, then the east coast comes into frame and finally the island of Manhattan. The camera pans across the skyscrapers, down, down, down to Chinatown between the Manhattan and ...
Bobby Broom: Plays For Monk
by Mark Corroto
Monk lives! Perhaps it can be said that Thelonious Monk has had many lives. Ever since the unique pianist established his repertoire in the 1940s and '50s musicians have, probably beginning with saxophonist Steve Lacy, taken up the task of covering the now infamous music. With Plays for Monk, guitarist Bobby Broom delivers one of the ...
J. D. Allen Trio: Shine
by Mark Corroto
It's impossible to be an impostor at the gambit in which J.D. Allen's trio is participating. His jukebox length compositions either hit or have the possibility to miss badly. Luckily, he has released a second trio album of all bull's-eyes. Shine! follows the pattern established on I AM I AM (Sunnyside, 2008). ...
Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues
by Mark Corroto
Without playing “name that tune," it is easy to mistake Jon Irabagon and Mike Pride's one song, 48-minute recording for one by Bill Laswell's Massacre. Same energy, same intensity, and volume, lots of volume. Funny, because this is an acoustic duo between saxophone and drums, while Massacre is a trio of drummer Charles Hayward, ...
Summer Love from Clean Feed
by Mark Corroto
Until an investigation is made into the remarkable success of the Lisbon-based Clean Feed Records, we will simply have to savor each and every release. Maybe it really isn't important how the label do it, but with each new disc, the listener is introduced to important new artists or asked to reconsider celebrated stars of jazz ...
3Play+: American Waltz
by Mark Corroto
The cleverly titled American Waltz might deserve a more fitting inscription as American Quilt," because woven into the admirably crafted compositions of leader/pianist Josh Rosen are all the elements that are American music. Rosen, a faculty member at Berklee College of Music, lists Bob Moses, Bennie Wallace, and }}George Schuller}} as performance partners. Besides ...
Riccardo Pittau Congregation: V IV MMV Death Jazz
by Mark Corroto
Italian jazz continues to surprise and impress American ears. And just as a West Coast musician would not be labeled in the same jazz category as a Chicago or a Texas player, Riccardo Pittau's jazz cannot be pigeonholed as Italian or Sardinian (his residence) jazz. His Congregation music falls somewhere in the wormhole opened ...
