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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 ...
Tigersmilk: Tigersmilk
by Mark Corroto
The creative jazz trio Tigersmilk makes improvised music that not only tastes good, it might even be good for you. The significant attraction here is cornetist Rob Mazurek of Chicago Underground, Isotope 217, and Brokeback. Mazurek’s latest disc Silver Spines (Delmark 2002) is a solo effort that comes off as less than inspiring. He ...
Zero dB: Reconstruction
by Mark Corroto
With a bit of hesitation, the jazz fan dips his/her little toe into the surging river of electronica and dance music. Sure, jazz in its early incarnations as dance music encouraged our fathers (maybe grandfathers) to hit the floor. Since the bebop revolution however, dancing has only maintained itself within the jazzer’s heart, as the listening ...
Triolid: Ur lamento
by Mark Corroto
Can you make demands upon pure improvisational music? The simple answer is no. The more correct (and lengthy) response is to ask the same question of its listeners. What does one bring to the listening table? Does expectation and theory only dull the experience? The best approach (for many) is to consider the ...
Giannis Gebbia: A Night In Palermo
by Mark Corroto
Musician and producer Gino Robair organized this recording shortly after the 1998 Dreamin’ California Festival in Palermo. The participants assembled in varying duos and trios to record short improvisational pieces, playing everything from traditional instruments to styrofoam and something called ‘The Bug.’ As you can guess, the results are a mixed bag of ...
Supersilent: 6
by Mark Corroto
The latest release by the Norwegian band Supersilent could be the Bitches Brew of our modern times. Like Miles Davis’s infamous recording, little information about the band or its music making is revealed from the CD packaging. In fact their first three releases, 1-3, 4, followed by the cleverly titled 5, only list producer Helge Sten ...
John Taylor Trio: Rosslyn
by Mark Corroto
At age 61, pianist John Taylor has finally made his major label debut as a leader. But then again, Rosslyn doesn't really have a chieftain. Taylor, who has been a sideman since the 1970s, seems not to mind sharing his rostrum with his two bandmates: bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron.The British-born Taylor ...
Ron Miles Quartet: Laughing Barrel
by Mark Corroto
The concept of jazz has seemingly always been an urban phenomenon. From Louis Armstrong’s move to Chicago to the post-war Charlie Parker revolution--and more recently, Wynton Marsalis’ uptown vs. downtown music debate--jazz concepts and jazz sounds have traditionally gravitated toward cities. But inside jazz itself, traditions are continuously rewritten. As the music has ...
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