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John Rapson: Water And Blood: The Billy Higgins Improvisations
by Mark Corroto
The complex idea behind John Rapson’s Water and Blood, The Billy Higgins Improvisations actually yields some simple and unassuming results. Rapson, whose trombone work has graced the California creative scene for twenty years, realized his idea to record drummer Billy Higgins’ solos and later overlay different players in a collaborative effort. He worked ...
Joe Robinson Quartet: While I'm Waiting
by Mark Corroto
Sitting on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, I won’t begin to expound on the politics of British jazz. All but ignored by Ken Burns’ Jazz series, you have to wonder if they have the equivalent of our Stanley Crouch and Wynton Marsalis show? Nonetheless, let us take this disc by the Joe Robinson Quartet free ...
Myles Boisen: Scrambledisc
by Mark Corroto
Tracking the musical interests of guitarist Myles Boisen finds him moving from order to increasing hubbub. His output with the West Coast band Splatter Trio, although never staid, evolved (or de-evolved) from the punk-jazz roots into a series of cut-up statements. Their final work Hi-Fi Junk Note (Rastascan 1995) is still being pieced together by a ...
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 ...
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