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Peter Evans Quartet: The Peter Evans Quartet
by Mark Corroto
Between the fifteen-second song “How Long and the nearly nine-minute “Tag, you're left wondering if your CD player is in need of a cleaning. You ponder if the laser isn't unlike a diamond stylus of an LP player. Those of us who grew up with vinyl remember dropping the arm in the middle of a track, ...
His Name Is Alive: Sweet Earth Flower: a tribute to Marion Brown
by Mark Corroto
Everything old is new again, even “the new thing is, well, “the new thing again. In the 1960s, as the moldy conservatives and even the hard bop practitioners were trying to define jazz as one specific thing. Suddenly, the music exploded into multiple directions. Aided by John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, adventurism ...
McCoy Tyner: Quartet
by Mark Corroto
From the first few notes you know you're going to love this live recording by McCoy Tyner. With a bass line borrowed from John Coltrane's “A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964), the quartet doesn't exactly mimic the Coltrane era as much as take inspiration from its legacy. And of course that legacy included Tyner some forty years ...
Territory Band: Collide
by Mark Corroto
Collide is Ken Vandermark's sixth release for his transatlantic small big band (or is it a large small group?) of American jazz meets European improvisers. Unlike the prior sessions, this disc is comprised of a single composition, divided into five parts. The Territory Band has, at its core, players who execute Vandermark's ...
Healing Force: The Songs Of Albert Ayler
by Mark Corroto
The candle that burns the brightest does burn for the shortest time. Saxophonist Albert Ayler only recorded music from 1962 until his death (was it suicide?) in 1970. Self described as the Holy Ghost to John Coltrane the Father and Pharoah Sanders the Son, he was a prophet of free jazz of the 1960s. ...
The Engines: The Engines
by Mark Corroto
Chicago is indeed a city of big shoulders. Great architecture, huge pizza, and musicians with heavyweight sound. Think of Buddy Guy, Gene Ammons, Lester Bowie, and Fred Anderson to name just a few. Pretension has never been an ingredient of their music. When four of Chicago's sons got together to form a band called ...
Derek Bailey: Standards
by Mark Corroto
The world is a bit lonelier now that guitarist Derek Bailey has passed away. The freedom his music allowed is, or should be, a model to every musician and listener interested in the creative process. This signature album, Standards, follows the 2002 Tzadik Records release of the infamous Ballads sessions, but was in fact recorded before ...
50 Years At Monterery: Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan
by Mark Corroto
Is Monterey, California a perfect location to hold a jazz festival? The answer for the past 50 years has been a resounding “yes." Conceived by Ralph Gleason and Jimmy Lyons, the notion that jazz should and could be presented on a large scale to West Coast audiences was a challenging one. The American government had just ...
The Flatlands Collective: Gnomade
by Mark Corroto
The Flatlands Collective is a small big band in the Chicago tradition of various Ken Vandermark ensembles. Its leader, saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra is Dutch, which confuses the clear picture, in that this music is at times more folkishly American than American music. But then again, this whole Chicago revival of jazz has had deep ...
Solar Fire Trio: Rise Up
by Mark Corroto
Prepare yourself to hate Ride Up, by the Liverpool group known as Solar Fire Trio. Not hate in the sense of bad music or difficult sounds. Hate as in “sacred hate. Like the Pravda quote from 1935, “. . . Irreconcilable, inflexible, untamable hate should be nourished by every worker, by every collective farm worker, by ...
