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Cooper-Moore: The Cedar Box Recordings
by Mark Corroto
In 2004, the multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore and 50 Miles of Elbow Room released a handmade cedar box filled with 5 vinyl 7" records, each with the artist playing a different handmade instrument. These collectible art pieces were soon sold out.But you're in luck, as AUM Fidelity along with 50 Miles of Elbow Room is repressing ...
Pete M. Wyer: Stories from the City at Night
by Mark Corroto
Pete M. Wyer's Stories from the City at Night bears uncanny reference to Kenneth Patchen and John Cage's 1942 radio play, The City Wears A Slouch Hat. Patchen, the “father of the beat poets," collaborated with composer Cage (there were no such titles as sound designer or DJ in those days) on an extraordinary soundtrack. Cage ...
Charles Gayle Trio: Forgiveness
by Mark Corroto
His story is familiar to many. Charles Gayle, the many times homeless saxophonist, plays his signature firebrand music and testifies to his religious faith in equal measure. Known for his tenor, he also plays the piano (an early instrument for him) with his unique style that is simultaneously old school and modern. Here he ...
Rob Mazurek's excellent adventures in Brazil and France
by Mark Corroto
Like bassist Williams Parker or fellow midwesterner, reed player Ken Vandermark, trumpeter and cornetist Rob Mazurek is a hub around which much creative activity revolves. He is a musician, musical organizer and visual artist whose hunger for invention is seemingly limitless. After his early (1990s) foray into bebop, he began to realize the possibilities of modern ...
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: We Are MTO
by Mark Corroto
Jazz is fun again. Yes, in the hands of a showman like Steven Bernstein it can be a ball. Whether he is fronting his band Sexmob, playing sideman to Bobby Previte, or arranging tracks for Mario Pavone, he means to entertain us. And entertainment as in “that's show biz folks." Maybe it was ...
Gaspare De Vito: Passing Notes
by Mark Corroto
An attempt to define Italian jazz is similar to trying to identify an American by only traveling to Texas. Just as American jazz differs from New York to Chicago or L.A., the jazz of Italy has many facets and it continues to surprise and entertain with its many flavors and eccentricities. Enter ...
Angelica Sanchez: Life Between
by Mark Corroto
Jazz listeners generally choose between the orderliness of a jazz ensemble with a piano, or the freedom that playing sans the chordal instrument allows a group. For pianist Angelica Sanchez, her presence muddles that distinction. On Life Between she preserves the order--not by chords, but by her compositions, arrangements and, maybe, presence. After releasing ...
Free Improvised Music from East to West
by Mark Corroto
This recent batch of freely improvised music assures us that there is no shortage of imaginative and highly skilled musicians applying their craft all over the world. Even though the music is challenging to make, and sometimes listen to, it does offer great rewards to those with patience and the fortitude to submit themselves to new ...
James Moody and Hank Jones Quartet: Our Delight
by Mark Corroto
The title Our Delight should have been subtitled with (to borrow a line from Ornette Coleman) “This Is Our Music," not so much in the sense of revolution as revelation. But then Pianist Hank Jones and saxophonist James Moody have been revealing their precious gifts of music since the 1940s. Both artists have been witness (and ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Guewel
by Mark Corroto
Drummer Harris Eisenstadt's recording, Guewel, isn't jazz. That is to say, it isn't jazz in the American sense of the word but, rather, jazz in the West African musical tradition. Eisenstadt, a Canadian-born New Yorker, is a student of the art of drumming. His two trips to Gambia and Senegal inspire this recording and his previous ...
