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Trio Sowari: Three Dances
by Mark Corroto
The initial challenge of approaching a recording by a group such as Trio Sowari is downplaying the visual aspects of improvised music. Even though music is an auditory experience, as listeners we constantly require visual confirmation of what our ears are taking in. Perhaps a DVD would fill the prescription, but then again your eyes would ...
Charlie Hunter & Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Longitude
by Mark Corroto
If recordings were comic books, then the latest offering from Bobby Previte and Charlie Hunter's project, Groundtruther, would be packed full of the captions “Blammo, “Whap, “and “Boom! The duo teamed up on the 2003 Red Dog, This Is Tango Leader and soon went on the create the Groundtruther project which invites a ...
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: A Blessing
by Mark Corroto
I heard the news today oh boy, four thousand holes in the jazz canon. And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all. Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Carnegie Hall. With apologies to Lennon/McCartney (and the Michael Jackson corporation that owns the music), John ...
James Finn: Plaza de Toros
by Mark Corroto
I heard a voice, or thought I heard a voice, say something in my ear as I dreamed during the first spin of saxophonist James Finn's new recording. “There is plenty room in my father's house, announced the jazz prophet. “You see improvisation, 'true improvisation' makes room for one more voice calling out into the night. ...
Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3
by Mark Corroto
Have pity on the poor Sun Ra music collector. You see, those who “do research" on a single artist like Duke Ellington, Sonny Blount, or John Coltrane spend years and countless dollars chasing one thing, like a heroin addict who can never find a high as good as the first time. Those of us who had ...
Marc Ribot: Spiritual Unity
by Mark Corroto
When you speak of the giants of free jazz--the signatories of its constitution, so to speak--you are obliged to include saxophonist Albert Ayler. But curiously enough, his immediately recognizable music, although revered, had no direct followers. His compositions have been covered, but not like those of John Coltrane or Ornette Coleman. Maybe he was too much ...
Rob Mazurek/Mandarin Movie: Mandarin Movie
by Mark Corroto
Besides being a musician, cornetist Rob Mazurek is also a visual artitst. The member of Tigersmilk, Isotope 217, and the Chicago Underground Duo, Trio, Quartet, and Orchestra also paints and constructs multimedia installations. Mandarin Movie draws as much from the musical aspects of his personality as the painterly ones. His band Mandarin Movie, whose ...
John Zorn/Naked City: Complete Studio Recordings
by Mark Corroto
The year was 1990, the US and Iraq were posturing, and the American president was also named George Bush. George the 1st said, “This aggression will not stand --dividing the country between protestations of “no blood for oil and, well, conservative “freedom fighters. I don't know who drew the line in the sand. ...
Jim Baker: More Questions Than Answers
by Mark Corroto
The liner notes to Jim Baker's first Delmark release are full of apologies. He writes that maybe he should have done an ensemble session with some of the musicians he has been working with lately, like Kent Kessler, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Zerang, Josh Abrams, Steve Hunt, Brian Sandstrom, or Avreeyal Ra. He thinks these “free improvisations" ...
Bebo Valdes & Diego el Cigala: Blanco Y Negro
by Mark Corroto
Bebo Valdes & Diego el Cigala Blanco Y Negro Bluebird 2005 I may fall out of favor with my fellow Americans expressing admiration for cultures much older and well, certainly more developed then ours. You disagree? Did you catch more then five minutes of the latest addition of the ...
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