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Quartet San Francisco: Whirled Chamber Music
by Mark Corroto
Scientists working diligently in a laboratory somewhere recently discovered a DNA strand and have identified it as the Cartoon Gene. This revelation proves the visual link between animation and sound. What they found is that cartoons permanently imprint sounds on your brain, for instance the sound of a character sneaking up stairs is a quickly rising ...
Daniele Cavallanti Electric Unit: Smoke Inside
by Mark Corroto
I've got this ringing in my ears! That's electric jazz, son; trust me, it's good for you. Italian saxophonist Daniele Cavallanti, best known for his work in Nexus and the Italian Instabile Orchestra with drummer Tiziano Tononi, assembled this Electric Unit not to play fusion, but the electric music handed down by founding fathers Miles Davis, ...
The Claudia Quintet: For
by Mark Corroto
Drummer John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet has created a sound. Let's not call it jazz, or chamber music, or rock for that matter. It is the Claudia sound, period. The trouble, of course with being original, is that the pigeon-holers cannot pigeonhole you and the radio folks won't play you. But then, everyone with an ear for ...
Art Lives: Two Newly Released Art Pepper Albums
by Mark Corroto
The story of saxophonist Art Pepper as documented in his autobiography Straight Life (Schirmer Books, 1979) is a remarkable one. The brash and extraordinarily talented Pepper followed saxophonist Charlie Parker into a life of addiction and for Pepper, prison. In between stints, he made some marvelous records, advancing Parker's bebop into a more personal statement. His ...
Michael Musillami Trio w/Mark Feldman: The Treatment
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Michael Musillami asks the musical question: when is a working trio recording with a guest more like a quartet than an invitation to sit in? The answer, of course, is when a very sympathetic player joins you for a session and tour. Musillami's trio of Joe Fonda (bass) and George Schuller (drums) has ...
Evan Parker / John Edwards / Chris Corsano: A Glancing Blow
by Mark Corroto
The music of saxophonist Evan Parker is an acquired taste. But, then again, so is pesto with fresh anchovies and the perfect espresso with just a cube of sugar. I'm sorry, but I digress. Like all the great jazz players he has created his own language. Think of Louis Armstrong calling Dizzy Gillespie's sound ...
Tri-Fi: Postcards
by Mark Corroto
Refreshingly radiant, the second release by the piano trio known as Tri-Fi is a hopeful session of original music. The trio of pianist Matthew Fries, drummer Keith Hall and bassist Phil Palombi was originally formed as the rhythm section for vocalist Curtis Stigers, but they have gone on to tour and record together as a working ...
Jacky Terrasson: Mirror
by Mark Corroto
If you had to write a headline for the career of Jacky Terrasson it might be “from brash to brilliant." The forty-something pianist took the jazz world by storm, winning the Thelonious Monk piano competition in 1993 only to make some impetuous records that wowed you with his talent. But they didn't register high with their ...
Alessandro Bosetti: Expos
by Mark Corroto
Music is a language. Sure, but there is also the music of spoken language. Both communicate. But beneath each, at perhaps the cellular (or bit rate) level, there is an entire universe of activity that goes unnoticed by people in conversation or during music listening.Composer, artist and musician Alessandro Bosetti, born in Milan, has ...
Tigersmilk: Android Love Cry
by Mark Corroto
Just as a graphic novel will never be awarded the book of the year honors, Android Love Cry will never be acknowledged as album of the year. Why? Think about science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Science fiction is your first clue, we don't suppose great literature can be science fiction, but Dick wrote some fantastic ...
