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Garage a Trois: Emphasizer
by Mark Corroto
When was the last time you had fun listening to a jazz record? I’m not talking about the seriousness of the neo-conservative suit-and-tie hard bopper syndrome, people who perform the “listen to this music, it’s good for you” kind. Nor the avant “we don’t expect (want) you to understand or actually like our ...
Jaco Pastorius: Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology
by Mark Corroto
Flames that burn brightly also burn for the shortest time. The genius of so many jazz innovators from Charlie Parker to Thomas Chapin were silenced at too young an age. The same is true for legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius. In his short 36 years, he revolutionized the role of the electric bass in jazz. And then ...
Axel D: Object 1
by Mark Corroto
They say writing about music is difficult. Try playing music dedicated to static, nonmusical objects. That’s what Locust Music’s new Object Series sets out to accomplish. Improvisers are given objects such as the bowling ball, brillo pad, and chest x-ray depicted on the cover of this recording and asked to react to the ...
Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Hada Hada
by Mark Corroto
Listening to the new release by Japanese trumpeter Natsuki Tamura's Quartet reminds me of the line Roy Scheider delivered in the movie Jaws when he gets his first glimpse at the great white shark he is pursuing. In a deadpan look of shock, he utters, “we have to get a bigger boat.” Perhaps ...
Adam Rudolph/Go Organic Orchestra: Web Of Light & 1
by Mark Corroto
Without proselytizing like Sun Ra about healing and world peace by way of music, I will tell you that composer and handdrummer/percussionist Adam Rudolph creates truly spiritual music. These two recordings by his large Organic Orchestra are ambitious undertakings that combine woodwinds and percussionists to create sounds that are both classical and jazz at ...
Charged: Charged Live
by Mark Corroto
Have you ever caught sight of people frozen in time zones of fashion? Like the eternal prep school dresser or the guy who will forever wear the Elvis pompadour and sideburns. Their fashion zone might be a case of cultural archeology--or are they wearing a disguise? The same feelings arise with Bill Laswell's live ...
Chet Baker: But Not For Me
by Mark Corroto
It was easy to fall in and out of love with Chet Baker. The trumpeter and vocalist was indeed a devil with an angel’s face. His doleful approach to music drew listeners into his darkness for a brief stay at his melancholy hotel. Baker’s drug abuse eventually--it took a while--destroyed his talents. In between his dark ...
Alessandro Bosetti/Michel Doneda/Bhob Rainey: Places dans l'air
by Mark Corroto
You might find it odd that a concert of three free jazz soprano saxophonists entitled ‘placed in the air’ could alternatively be called ‘turn up the quiet.’ But that's exactly where Alessandro Bosetti, Michel Doneda, and Bhob Rainey are coming from. This hushed, almost modest form of improvisation is at odds with the ...
Paal Nilssen-Love/Ken Vandermark: Dual Pleasure
by Mark Corroto
The association between Norwegian Drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and Chicago saxophonist Ken Vandermark has seemingly been one of continuously paring down boundaries and borders. As members of the band School Days, the two musicians have met up with equal parts Chicago and Norway in quartet/quintet settings to make the records Crossing Division (2000) and ...
Parsons/Lewin/Patitucci/Monder: Flip!
by Mark Corroto
Least we forget, jazz was once popular music. Not something that required a degree in music theory to appreciate, nor merely a ‘quiet storm’ of background soundtrack for your office cubicle. It seems the young cats today, the likes of Ben Allison, Matt Wilson, and Charlie Hunter, desire to come down from the lofty perch jazz ...
