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Michael Bates: Outside Sources
by Mark Corroto
This new recording by bassist Michael Bates has pop music appeal. I’m not talking about saccharine-covered smooth jazz elevator music, but a jazz record that hooks you and draws you in, with not so much catchy tunes as engaging ideas. Bates and his fellow Canadian bandmates, drummer Mark Timmermans and saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff, favor ...
Enrico Pieranunzi: Fellini Jazz
by Mark Corroto
The elegance that is Fellini Jazz serves as a tribute to both the great director and this assembly of musicians. Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi continues to make make dream recordings that are so much more than all-star get togethers. This release follows two stellar sessions, Plays Morricone and Current Conditions (both on CAM ...
Cooper-Moore/Tom Abbs/Chad Taylor: Triptych Myth
by Mark Corroto
The new disc by Cooper-Moore’s trio brings to mind the lyrics from “Life Is Grand” by the rock band Camper Van Beethoven: And life is grand And I will say this at the risk of falling from favor With those of you who have appointed yourselves To expect ...
George Colligan: Mad Science
by Mark Corroto
I must confess that I recently signed a petition to call for the end of B3 organ recordings. Not that I haven’t enjoyed the jazz organ playing by Jimmy Smith, Charles Earland, and Sun Ra... just that with the reinvestigation of the instrument since the late 1980s and 1990s the storm gates have opened for John ...
Water Music Explores the 1960s
by Mark Corroto
National Book Critics Circle Award winning author Jonathan Lethem's latest work, The Fortress Of Solitude, is a fictional account of two boys, one black one white, born in Brooklyn in the 1960s. Their story is told within the turbulent times they were raised, with plenty of references to the various songs that were the soundtrack to ...
Donny McCaslin: The Way Through
by Mark Corroto
Why should you listen to new jazz recordings? There will never be another Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, or Charles Mingus. Nor will there be another Jaco Pastorius, Thomas Chapin, or Tom Cora. We listen because each new generation produces a voice that resonates somewhere deep within our souls. And discovery of that voice ...
Wolfgang Mitterer: Radio Fractal/Beat Music Donaueschingen 2002
by Mark Corroto
Composer Wolfgang Mitterer declares the end of the jazz remix industry with his Radio Fractal/Beat Music project. His vision combines composition with improvisation like a street demonstration begins with planned activities and thereafter devolves into a brick- and Molotov cocktail-throwing exercise. Mitterer's combination of live musicians with instruments, others with electronics, and a DJ ...
Gold Sparkle Trio: Thunder Reminded Me
by Mark Corroto
Music, especially jazz music, has always been about personal expression. Get past the industry and the tradition, and you always return to the one caveman who gets up after the evening meal and howls the best. The more sophisticated we get in music, the more important are those few “cavemen" who howl. With apologies ...
Rick McLaughlin Trio: Study of Light
by Mark Corroto
It’s not chamber music just because you play it without a drummer; it could be jazz even though it was written by Ravel. That statement might be too long to be a title for bassist Rick McLaughlin's new trio disc, but it certainly is accurate. McLaughlin employs two fellow members of Boston’s Either/Orchestra, pianist Greg Burk ...
John Zorn: Filmworks XIV
by Mark Corroto
Fans of composer/saxophonist John Zorn often talk about him in metric terms, as in “my Zorn collection has grown to this many meters in length.” His output of late has focused on his composing; he has been heard less on record, preferring to step back and showcase his writing. Other bands cover his Masada compositions and ...
