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Dan Clucas / Immediately: Exile
by Mark Corroto
This disc had me from the first few notes, and that's a rare event, especially when it is by a new (unfamiliar) artist. Cornetist Dan Clucas can be heard on a couple Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet (large ensemble) sessions, but otherwise you might not have heard his music. And besides drummer Rich West, who has ...
Jack Wright / Carol Genetti / Jon Mueller: Nom Tom
by Mark Corroto
Jack Wright continues to be the greatest free jazz saxophonist you've never heard. But that is his calling, not his choice. He travels the land playing for audiences of two to two hundred, can teach a very inspired history lesson, or scramble some eggs. It makes no difference to him. Wright chose his path long ago, ...
Mark Whitecage & The Bi-Coastal Orchestra: BushWacked
by Mark Corroto
It may be true that the “eye of the needle Jesus spoke of in the gospels has been widened by our current President Bush to allow for CEOs to drive their SUVs straight into heaven, but they won't, and they cannot, motor with their windows open as the voices of opposition grow louder. Such is the ...
Corpulent: Wolfwalk
by Mark Corroto
Nobody asks you to take part in a revolution or overturn the status quo. I guess you just believe things should be different (maybe better?) and you jump in. Sometimes to your detriment, sometimes to glory. I'm not talking about the world trade talks, I speak of jazz revolutions, from swing to bebop, the “new thing," ...
Punctual Trio: Grammar
by Mark Corroto
Is there a mode (maybe mood, posture, or circumstance) in which you are required to set yourself in order to appreciate (maybe absorb) freely improvised music? If you are attending a live show, the location, smells, company, and certainly the visual aspects of the show contribute to your “experience." When you are merely listening to a ...
Mats Gustafsson/David Stacken: Mountain Blues From Sweden
by Mark Corroto
Remember Eva from Jim Jarmusch's first feature film Stranger Than Paradise? She, a thick-accented Eastern European, was fixated on the American bluesman Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Her out of character declarations to “bug off so she can dig the tune “I Put A Spell On You was so unnatural, you knew this film was never planning to ...
Jon Mueller/Jim Schoenecker: The Interview
by Mark Corroto
In the Tour de France, the bicycle race (not Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations tours), the organizers rate the mountains the competitors are required to cycle over. There is a category 1 climb: a little hill; category 2: a bigger hill; and so on. They reserve the designation “HC" for “hors catergorie, or a beyond category climb, ...
Rich Halley: Mountains And Plains
by Mark Corroto
This latest release comes from saxophonist Rich Halley's working trio. The term “working trio" denotes several things in jazz. First, it literally designates Halley, bassist Clyde Reed, and drummer Dave Storrs as a band you might catch live in their native Northwest. Second, it implies that the members of this trio share a common approach and ...
Roscoe Mitchell/Tatsu Aoki: Chicago Duos/First Look
by Mark Corroto
You have to respect jazz musicians for their calling to this (less then popular) music. That said, how does one show proper admiration for the likes of Roscoe Mitchell? The AACM and Art Ensemble of Chicago musician has been laboring in the trenches for nearly fifty years! Those caught under the spell of his saxophone solos ...
New Basics Brass Band: Good Times Are Likely
by Mark Corroto
Life is nothing but a party. Well, actually with today's wars, hurricanes and floods, gas prices, and the decline of the middle class--not to mention the growing influence Dick Cheney has on snack food--life's party is often canceled. But there is good news. Nobody can stop you from partying to the sounds of the ...
