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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 ...
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, ...
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