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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 ...
Aoki/Hunsinger/Jarman: Trio
by Mark Corroto
Since its inception in the 1960s, Chicago’s influential AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) has been dedicated to the expansion of our musical language. The founders and participants have included Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, and Jack DeJohnette. Their influence has been felt beyond Chicago in the travels and inventions ...
Jim Knodle & Anansi: Wending
by Mark Corroto
Trumpeter Jim Knodle takes a very long view of the recorded history of jazz. The music he wrote for this quintet/sextet known as Anansi never truly centers itself on one period or style of sound. Wending takes equally from Ellington, Early and Late-Miles, and a very open form music. Because the three tracks ...
Abdullah Ibrahim: African Magic
by Mark Corroto
In today’s jazz world with all of its wunderkind piano prodigies, the simplicity of South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim’s approach to the piano is his genius. He can say more with two notes of his left hand than an entire room of Julliard and Berklee graduates can express with both paws. In his fiftieth ...
Fred Hersch Trio: Live At The Village Vanguard
by Mark Corroto
Pianist Fred Hersch starts off this live set unaccompanied, playing a version of Thelonious Monk’s “Bemsha Swing” in a ‘smarty-pants-deconstructed-chamber-post-modernism’ style. As we all know, Monk has never been about high mindedness, and Hersch lets you know he knows just that. Just as his rhythm partners kick in, he shakes off Carnegie Hall for a true ...
Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium
by Mark Corroto
The musical explorations of Matthew Shipp in this new century remind one of similar investigations by Miles Davis forty years ago. Back then, Miles explored modal jazz and his audience followed. He played third stream music, a combination of jazz and classical, and lifted his audience, as all of us wanted to explore Spanish music after ...
Greg Burk Trio: Checking In
by Mark Corroto
Pianist Greg Burk's debut on the Italian Soul Note label, Checking In, might have been better suited with the title Checking Out, as in “I've been checking out different approaches to the jazz piano trio." The disc displays the Berklee educator's multiple voices, beginning with his fundamentally stable sound. Joining Burk are drumming legend ...
Tom Christensen: Paths
by Mark Corroto
Like his previous release Gualala (Naxos 2000) where he plays a jazz oboe, multi-reedist Tom Christensen adds the French horn to his piano-less quartet on Paths. But this band's second outing with wood flutes, bass flutes, clarinets and hand drumming is not about eccentricity. Christensen and company are all about making beautifully accessible yet ...
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