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Rodrigo Amado: Teatro
by Mark Corroto
Please just forget that I'm telling you this live recording from 2004 documents the first time these three improvising musicians had ever played together. Teatro is by Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, first heard on the Clean Feed label, in the Lisbon Improvisation Players and with Ken Filiano. He follows in the footsteps of Chicago's ...
Cassandra Cleghorn / Erik Lawrence / Rene Hart / Allison Miller: Merge
by Mark Corroto
Poet Bern Porter once told me that all he asked in exchange for one of his poems was a loaf of bread. If you really liked the poem, he suggested, you might bake that bread with a few raisins inside. Porter's philosophy is certainly a far cry from today's hip-hop generation, with its cognac, scantily clad ...
Falkner Evans: Climbing The Gates
by Mark Corroto
This recording by pianist Falkner Evans is a jazz critic's guilty pleasure. Sure, we are supposed to be combing the bins for the latest greatest high-wire jazz act. But sometimes a rock-solid traditional performance grabs hold of your ears and smiles result. Such is the case of this Oklahoma-born artist turned New York resident. ...
Andrew Rathbun: Shadow Forms
by Mark Corroto
After a series of challenging and complex recordings, saxophonist Andrew Rathbun gives us his “unplugged" album, minus the larger ensembles present on his earlier releases. The seven-piece Jade (FSNT, 2000) with vocalist Luciana Souza, the recording of Margaret Atwood's poetry on True Stories (Blue Moon, 2001), and even his quintet recording Sculptures (FSNT, 2002) with Kenny ...
Muhal Richard Abrams / George Lewis / Roscoe Mitchell: Streaming
by Mark Corroto
To paraphrase Jack Nicholson from the 1997 film As Good As It Gets, this recording “...makes me want to be a better listener. Impeccably recorded, Streaming brings together (once again) three AACM giants for an hour of open (their word) improvisation. Like Stephen Hawkins has done with casual conversation, artists Muhal Richard Abrams, George ...
Jack Wright: As Is: Solos from Beirut and Barcelona
by Mark Corroto
Dear Mr. Jack Wright, Please don't sell out your ideals for a quick dollar. With the increasing interest in free jazz improvisation, don't license you music to club DJs for a remix project. If you get an offer, don't do a standards record, a Jack Wright With Strings recording, or a duet session with ...
George Colligan: Blood Pressure
by Mark Corroto
For the past ten years, every article or review about pianist George Colligan's music has opined as to when this very talented musician would become a household name. He has amassed an impressive list of sideman gigs with the likes of Cassandra Wilson, Don Byron, Buster Williams, Benny Golson and Lonnie Plaxico. His discography as a ...
Ron Miles: Stone / Blossom
by Mark Corroto
Ron Miles' trumpet has such an appealing tone that I'd eagerly listen to him play the songs of Johnny Cash, Lee Morgan, or Earth, Wind and Fire. His directions in music, like those of his close friend Bill Frisell, have been forged from more than just the jazz canon. Stone/Blossom is equal parts jazz, ...
Elliott Sharp: Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
by Mark Corroto
Elliott Sharp might have once been described as a skinny kid from Cleveland, Ohio who has come to steal your women and drink your beer. But that, my friends, was a long time ago. A graduate of the New York Downtown scene of the 1980s and 1990s, Sharp has branched out into string quartets, hard-core blues, ...
Gail Brand / Tim Perkis / Gino Robair / John Shiurba / Matthew Sperry: Supermodel Suermodel
by Mark Corroto
Producer, percussionist, and label chief Gino Robair has a habit of inviting improvising musicians to meet and create. His early work was with the hard-core improv band Splatter Trio, before associations with Anthony Braxton, Tom Waits, John Butcher, Otomo Yoshihide, Eugene Chadbourne and John Zorn. In 2002 he invited UK trombonist Gail Brand out to the ...
