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Ted Rosenthal: The 3 B's
by Mark Corroto
Lucky for us that jazz is virtually meaningless in the bigger picture of today’s popular entertainment. I say this because if music were like art at the turn of the century, this recording by Ted Rosenthal may have caused fistfights. It’s not that the solo pianist has created a shocking Nude Descending a Staircase as much ...
Wren/Stabbins/Riley/Sanders: Four In The Afternoon
by Mark Corroto
This 2001 session was a return to the improvising scene by bassist Tony Wren. For those who are tuned into the British scene, his return was celebrated. For those of us stateside, who only get bits and pieces of information and performances via recordings, please rejoice in this quartet date. The significance of this ...
Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble: Horizon Event
by Mark Corroto
Jump in to the flow of Dennis Warren’s music any place you desire. His music, the music of the Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble (FMRJE) is a continuously flowing river of sound with (seemingly) no starting or ending points. The drummer Dennis Warren is a disciple of Milford Graves and has studied with ...
Ben Allison: Peace Pipe
by Mark Corroto
Enough already with labeling bassist Ben Allison in the “talent-deserving-wider- recognition" classification. He has certainly arrived, or at least he has made it without all the young lion baggage. His carry on luggage includes establishing the Jazz Composers Collective ten years ago, a musician-run, non-profit dedicated to creative musicians new and inventive endeavors. Along ...
Ralph Alessi: This Against That/Vice & Virtue
by Mark Corroto
It's time for trumpeter Ralph Alessi to step out from his role as a sideman and flex his muscular jazz talents. Originally from the West Coast and trained at the California Institute For The Arts, Alessi moved to New York to find plenty of work in diverse bands led by Ravi Coltrane, Sam Rivers, ...
The Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Marriage Of Heaven And Earth
by Mark Corroto
...and the disc ends with the energy punk/jazz track “Reconciliation Of Heaven And Earth” and the crowd bursts into frenzied applause. But wait there’s more. The Fully Celebrated Orchestra not only has the energy jazz vibe down; they dig their roots from former ‘punk’ new thing jazzmen, Ornette Coleman and Duke Ellington. ...
DJ Spooky: Optometry
by Mark Corroto
The integration of DJ culture into jazz was inevitable. But then, Jazz has always adopted popular forms of music. For instance, it took on rock in the 1960s with much debatable results. There is good fusion and bad fusion, as with all forms of jazz it comes down to creative ideas and musicianship. As jazz and ...
Tim Berne: The Sevens
by Mark Corroto
After a period of silence, Tim Berne is back with a flurry of recorded activity. The composer/saxophonist released sessions in a binge manner from the mid-1980s through the mid-90s, first Columbia, then later JMT. He went on to start his own label Screwgun to document his activities and release long out-of-print music by himself and his ...
Sonny Simmons: Live - In Paris
by Mark Corroto
The story of the resurrection of saxophonist Sonny Simmons has been told and retold many times. Needless to say, his comeback recording Ancient Ritual in 1994 rekindled interest in his brand of Coltrane meets Ornette and Ayler music. Since then, he has recorded for the specialty jazz label CIMP and a nifty outward session The Cosmosamatics ...
Richard Moore: Now What Now
by Mark Corroto
“File under spoken word,” doesn’t quite describe the terrain we are traversing on Richard Moore’s Now What Now. The singer/songwriter teams up with percussionist Dave Storrs (The Tone Sharks, Boundary Issues, Rob Blakeslee, Rich Halley) and bassist Page Hundemer (The Tone Sharks, Whirled Jazz) for three days of philosophically based improvised music. Richard Moore ...
