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Bobby Hutcherson: For Sentimental Reasons
by Mark Corroto
How easy is it to fall for this gentle recording of ballads and love songs? Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson chooses cherished songs from his youth to deliver one gorgeous session of music. The jazz faithful know many sides of Hutcherson. There's the Blue Note sideman of the 1960s sprinting with the hard bop young lions ...
Alessandro Bosetti: Her Name
by Mark Corroto
Multi-instrumentalist Alessandro Bosetti's latest recording might be better-covered in the books section, because he is definitely a story teller. Her Name is presented more as a series of short stories than an improvisation. The saxophonist, who has gained deserved attention on two Potlatch releases Places dans l'air (2003) and Phosphor (2001), moves away from ...
Rob Brown Trio: Sounds
by Mark Corroto
The title, Sounds, might oversimplify the concept for Rob Brown's latest trio. Or maybe it allows for the multiple possibilities. You see it is not just jazz sounds that are made here, nor is it only modern or avant-garde music. Brown is stretching the elastic of music-making, just like Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler once did. ...
Fred Frith: From Metal Head To Space Cowboy
by Mark Corroto
It is impossible to pigeonhole the music of guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith. His early work with Henry Cow and Art Bears asked to be collected in the prog-rock bin, yet its improvising nature signaled the avant-garde. Later he was to be a member of Skeleton Crew with Tom Cora and Zeena Parkins, Curlew, Bill Laswell's Material and ...
Carl Ludwig Hubsch: Carl Ludwig Hubsch's Primordial Soup
by Mark Corroto
Composer and tubist Carl Ludwig Hübsch once released a CD of 119 solo tuba pieces. Actually only 99 could fit on the single disc! Try to imagine the record producer having the conversation with the artist, “Sorry Carl, we are going to have to either edit some of this material that runs nearly two minutes or ...
Jacques Chanier / Jeff Galindo: Access Renewed
by Mark Corroto
A ridiculous thing happens when a person is diagnosed with cancer. At first panic occurs as you sprint to doctor appointments, and that hurriedness intrudes on your daily life. Later as you live with the disease, your slow down to a jog or maybe even stop to smell the flowers. When brain cancer strikes an artist ...
Theo Bleckmann/Ben Monder: At Night
by Mark Corroto
Experiencing the music of vocalist Theo Bleckmann and guitarist Ben Monder isn't so much listening as it is swimming. Take, for instance, their cover of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's “Norwegian Wood." The Beatles' guiltless romp through sexuality opens with a tidal wave of fuzzy, over-amped guitar and vocal feedback. Bleckman begins, “I once ...
Erik Lawrence: Erik Lawrence & Hipmotism
by Mark Corroto
Somehow, somewhere jazz fans (maybe fanatics) changed the way one could appreciate this music. Theory has it that once the music migrated up the Mississippi from New Orleans (via Louis Armstrong) to Chicago and then spread to New York that it was no longer joyful, but serious business. Who could argue? Charlie Parker had his heroin ...
The Many Faces Of Mike Pride
by Mark Corroto
When you hear a new artist, naturally you tell others and spread the word. When the discovery is someone like percussionist and multi- instrumentalist Mike Pride--with his huge discography--you ask yourself, where have I been? Born in Maine in 1979, Pride now makes his home in NYC. Like saxophonist and fellow New Yorker John Zorn, pinning ...
Joseph Jarman: As If It Were The Seasons
by Mark Corroto
If you walk into a grove of redwood trees in Northern California you will come upon a cathedral of trees. These living/breathing beings, some nearly 300 feet tall, may have been standing there together for the last thousand or two thousand years. They have been very quietly affecting the ecology of the west since before Europeans ...
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