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William Parker/Joe Morris/Hamid Drake: Eloping With The Sun
by Mark Corroto
The surprise in the pairing of these three creative music superstars is not that they have finally recorded together. The astonishing thing about Eloping With The Sun is the music they decided to make. Choosing African instruments, percussionist Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker create trance-inducing rhythms for guitarist Joe Morris to play the ...
Jeff Parker: Like-Coping
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Jeff Parker presents what, for lack of a better term, is the new ‘Midwest cool.’ On his first release as a leader (besides the hard to find Vega on the French label Marge), he plays with an authenticity that could be mistaken for intellectualism. His brand of enlightened swing has strengthened the ...
Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: Cape Town Shuffle
by Mark Corroto
Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble continues to give the people what they want. That is butt-shakin' blues based jazz. Like Charles Mingus recalling the field hollers, the Art Ensemble of Chicago bringing the beat straight out of Africa, and Dizzy Gillespie spinning into new heights with bebop, Dawkins stirs his listeners to get up and move.
Carla Kihlstedt: 2 Foot Yard
by Mark Corroto
Carla Kihlstedt, the violinist for the Tin Hat Trio, steps out to create her first solo project on Two Foot Yard. Ms. Kihlstedt seems equally comfortable in classical, jazz, pop, and the avant-classical/jazz/pop arenas. The ultimate compliment paid is to call her the female equivalent of Tom Waits. Like Waits she is a master ...
Stefano Di Battista: Round About Roma
by Mark Corroto
Italian saxophonist Stefano Di Battista could spill a can of paint onto a canvas, only to find he has made a beautiful picture. In other words, every breath that passes through his horn is attractive. His latest project Round About Roma creates an imaginary cinema score, with strings by the Symphonic Orchestra of Paris, ...
Wiek Hijmans: Electric Solo!
by Mark Corroto
Out on the fringes of jazz lurks the solo electric guitar performer playing music that has been forever rejected by classical music fans. Yes, the electric guitar, which wasn’t considered a soloing instrument in jazz before Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. Its status as king of rock and roll further alienates modern classical fans.
Fred Hess/Marc Sabatella: Right At Home
by Mark Corroto
All About Jazz's Dan McClenaghan introduced us to saxophonist Fred Hess last month with his review of his latest quartet date, Extended Family . The Colorado-based saxophonist simultaneously released a duo outing with pianist Marc Sabatella, Right At Home. Where the quartet displays determined bravado, this duo turns inward, taking a more personal approach. ...
Ben Neill: Automotive
by Mark Corroto
What’s a car commercial these days without a hip song? And although I’ve never seen Don Henley’s “Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac,” it scares me half to death to see GM appropriating Led Zeppelin’s music to sell the terminally unhip Cadillac dinosaurs. What self-respecting Jimmy Page fan would be caught dead in those Detroit rust buckets? ...
Paal Nilssen-Love/Mats Gustafsson: I Love It When You Snore
by Mark Corroto
Together they make two-thirds of the Scandinavian creative music trio The Thing (with bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten). Apart they both have established careers in adventurous jazz making. Percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love is a member of Ken Vandermark’s School Days and Raoul Björkenheim’s Scorch Trio and Mats Gustafsson has ascended to the throne of free-jazz saxophone royalty with ...
Hilmar Jensson: Tyft
by Mark Corroto
Once the line that demarcates musical genres has been erased, there ain’t no returning to the farm. Paris (or a virtual Paris) has been seen, and one can never be the same. So says Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jensson. His trio with drummer Jim Black and saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo shares in the belief that ...
