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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 ...
Sonny Rollins: Road Shows Vol.1
by Mark Corroto
The sound of Sonny Rollins is unmistakable. Instantly recognizable when he plays just one note, this living legend has long stood out in the crowd of tenor players during the remarkable six decades he's been recording and playing.Since Rollins took control of his music publishing a few years ago, releasing recordings under his own ...
Mario Pavone Double Tenor Quintet: Ancestors
by Mark Corroto
It might be cliche to say that the recording Ancestors by Mario Pavone's Double Tenor Quintet has caught lightning in a bottle, but this is indeed a potent feat of extraordinary music making. The bassist/leader became famous as the primary accompanist for the late saxophonist Thomas Chapin. In the ten years since Chapin's death in 1998, ...
Trio Sowari: Shortcut
by Mark Corroto
Someone is listening. Shortcut, the second release by European minimalist improvisation group Trio Sowari is proof enough. They're listening, not in the auditory sense, but in the experience of harkening, attending, and actually hearing.Trio Sowari is comprised of Phil Durant, the English violinist turned electronics specialist, Swiss saxophonist Bertrand Denzler, and German percussionist Burkhard ...
Erik Friedlander: Broken Arm Trio
by Mark Corroto
Inspired by the late great bassist Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960) who, after breaking his arm took up the cello is this project by the cellist Erik Friedlander. His Broken Arm Trio is a sweet downhome session full of homespun jazz. Together with bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Trio-Convulsant, Junk Genius) and drummer Mike Sarin (Thomas Chapin, Ben ...
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: This Is Our Moosic
by Mark Corroto
And the call came out from the emperor Wynton Marsalis to his loyal henchman Stanley Crouch, “Bring me the head of Moppa Elliott, and deliver his dome on a ride cymbal!” In fact, the Lord of Lincoln Center demanded the heads of all the members of the band Mostly Other People Do The Killing or MOPDTK. ...
Fredrik Nordstrom Quartet: Blue
by Mark Corroto
Swedish saxophonist Fredrik Nordström (b. 1974) has been a player garnering much attention over the last few years. As his discography reaches double digits, his sound has consolidated and concentrated into a recognizable tenor approach. Blue is his fifth disc for Moserobie Music and first recording with piano legend Bobo Stenson. All ...
Christian Howes: Heartfelt
by Mark Corroto
There is always the fear that producing an authentic jazz album with orchestration is too ambitious a project and is doomed under the heaviness associated with such affairs. And that might have been the case here, except the sum of the parts, i.e., violinist Christian Howes and arrangers Kuno Schmid and Roger Kellaway, is certainly more ...
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