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Mike Melvoin Presents Dan Jaffe: Playing The Word
by Mark Corroto
A quick trip to Borders finds rows and rows of books about jazz history, biography and discography in the music section. Most of them will certainly help you fall asleep late at night. Give me the oral history of our music: the stories, the myths and the lies. Jazz is about the beat, and ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Solo
by Mark Corroto
The metamorphosis of Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba has taken a gifted player from a fiery caterwauler to a nimble, introspective musician. His early recordings were fueled by youthful enthusiasm and the encouragement of the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette. Like his musical compatriot, the French phenom Jackie Terrasson, he has talent on ...
Nine Winds Continue to Blow
by Mark Corroto
Label chief and multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia is quite the busy man. In addition to a recent release on Portugal's Clean Feed label and a DVD documenting his Large Ensemble, he continues to turn out creative and challenging music on his own label Nine Winds. Here's a look at a few of his recent releases. ...
Lionel Marchetti: Red Dust
by Mark Corroto
Do you find yourself using your iPod more and more for news, stories, and podcasts these days and less for music? Where once we had standard “books on tape," now there is decentralized reportage from independent sources. The “Nothing is Forbidden, Everything is Permitted credo reigns. The woman on the bus across from you is as ...
Lucien Dubuis: Tovorak
by Mark Corroto
Lucien Dubuis answers the musical question which Miles Davis' later bands always sought to resolve. Why can't jazz bands be entertaining like rock bands? Dubuis tackles that one on Tovorak while shaking you, sometimes violently. Sure sure, jazzbos have injected punk attitude and funk into their music for some time. Think of early Ken ...
Gutbucket: Sludge Test
by Mark Corroto
Gutbucket might be the possessed grandchildren of bandleader Spike Jones, except that in the three CDs they have produced, I've yet to hear a gunshot. This modernized version of the blender band has been done before by groups such as Naked City, Blood Duster, and Mr. Bungle, but not nearly as well. Like Spike Jones, this ...
Bernardo Sassetti: Ascent
by Mark Corroto
I am often a music fanatic before I'm a reviewer. Note to self: read the liner notes of the CDs to which you listen. With apologies to those who always begin with the notes, I tore open the latest by Lisbon-born pianist Bernardo Sassetti, popped it in the player, and gave it a listen or three.
Michael Vlatkovich: Across 36 Continents
by Mark Corroto
West Coast trombonist Michael Vlatkovich displays some mature yet nonconformist writing and arranging on Across 36 Continents. The eccentricities prepared for this ten-piece small orchestra make for fresh and at times freewheeling music-making. Then again, Vlatkovich is known for being a bit unconventional. His recent work has been in duets: Call And Response (pfMentum), with poet ...
Reuben Radding: Intersections
by Mark Corroto
Check the lineup on this recording and you might get a hint about where it is headed. A bass/vibes/clarinet affair often speaks to brainy, logical, and adroit musicmaking. Intersections is indeed passionate, but in measured doses. Bassist Reuben Radding is equally comfortable in jazz, classical and ethnic music. His duet disc with Daniel Carter, ...
Z: Bad Guys
by Mark Corroto
Face it: jazz will never again regain the audience (or power) it held sixty, fifty, or even forty years ago. The giants--Monk, Mingus, and Coltrane--are gone. Sure, the listeners who read these reviews are moved by the music, but the kids in the streets are marching to a different beat... literally. We temper our ...
