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Chicago Underground Trio: Slon
by Mark Corroto
The music of the Chicago Underground Trio (and Duo and Quartet and Orchestra) has always been about fragments of sound. Not so much abstract disassociation (of those fragments) but discovery of associations and the connotations of their similarities. Whether they are post-Miles, post-Ornette, post-rock, or simply the new Chicago aesthetic, the Trio is pulling ...
Vinny Golia: Music For like Instruments: The Eb Saxophones
by Mark Corroto
Heading up your own label gives you a certain freedom of expression and the ability to create varying projects. Vinnie Golia's stewardship has been the impetus for well over a hundred recordings on his Nine Winds label. From free duets to large ensemble sessions, Golia has kept the West Coast creative scene well documented. ...
Pettre Wettre Trio/Quintet: Household Name/Live At Copenhagen Jazzhouse
by Mark Corroto
Norwegian saxophonist Petter Wettre strikes out on his own, releasing two discs on his newly created label Household Records . While the label is new, Wettre’s horn playing has graced nearly forty dates over the years. His own releases as leader have been impressive, especially Meet The Locals (Resonant, 1998) and The Mystery Unfolds (BP, 2001). ...
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 ...
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