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Jane Bunnett/Stanley Cowell/Dewey Redman: Spirituals & Dedications
by Mark Corroto
The spirituals from Spirituals & Dedications are traditional songs from the Christian church. The dedications here are to the immensely spiritual men of our modern musical times. Flutist and soprano saxophonist Jane Bunnett and her husband/producer/trumpeter Larry Cramer assembled two often overlooked and under appreciated musicians, Stanley Cowell and Dewey Redman, to breathe sanctified life into ...
Various Artists: Freedom In The City 2001 Large Groups/Small Groups
by Mark Corroto
I have to disagree with my Buddhist, musician friend Pilcher. He believes that the proper way to listen to free improvisation recordings is to replicate the spontaneity of the performance by only spinning the disc once! Pilcher understands the experience should be fleeting, with only the memory sense? impression as a reference. He argues, you only ...
Naked City: Live Vol. 1 Knitting Factory 1989
by Mark Corroto
John Zorn’s Naked City band circa 1989 was truly the spark in the revolution known as Downtown music. The saxophonist and composer was working in multiple worlds of free improvisation, cartoon, film, and hardcore. His combination of the three latter bridged the music of Raymond Scott, Ennio Morricone and Napalm Death. The studio recording Naked City ...
Bj: Scorch Trio
by Mark Corroto
What immediately hits you about the music of the Scorch Trio is their raw intensity and singularity of purpose. Guitarist Raoul Björkenheim, born in Los Angeles, has spent most of his musical career in Finland. He has recorded with Edvard Vesala, Bill Laswell, Nicky Skopelitis, and his own band Krakatau. He brings a passion for Jimi ...
Scott Colley: Initial Wisdom
by Mark Corroto
Bassist Scott Colley steps into the big leagues with his first release for the adventuresome Palmetto Records label. Colley has been a leader of recording sessions in the past, his The Magic Line (Arabesque 2000) and Subliminal... (Criss Cross 1997) garnered critical press for the thirty-eight year-old musician and he has been part of several important ...
Lol Coxhill: Spectral Soprano
by Mark Corroto
To describe Lol Coxhill as an eccentric English improviser would be redundant, maybe redundant times two. The saxophonist known for his wicked sense of musical humor is a true original voice. These two discs contain 29 tracks, over two hours of music recorded between 1954 and 1999. Compiled by the artist, these tracks ...
David Slusser: Rubber City
by Mark Corroto
Ohio expatriates David Slusser and Ralph Carney pay tribute to their rust belt beginnings on the Akron-inspired Rubber City. Slusser recorded these live quartet performances in the San Francisco Bay Area, with guests dropping in to add flavorful touches. Slusser, Carney, and drummer Chris Ackerman all barely escaped Ohio without gross disfigurements from industrial accidents to ...
Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music
by Mark Corroto
The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...
Medeski Martin & Wood: Uninvisible
by Mark Corroto
Medeski Martin & Wood has in effect cut out the middleman on their latest, Uninvisible. The middle being the re-mix project relative to this recording. The trio along with Wu-Tang Clan producer Scotty Hard invited an army of musicians and DJs to participate in this recording, layering, mixing, channeling, and re-mixing as they assembled it piece-by-piece. ...
Naftule's Dream: JOB
by Mark Corroto
The 1990s saw a resurrection of musical styles from ska and big band swing to Klezmer. Like the hype, most of these revivals soon faded. But funny thing is Klezmer continues to stick around. The traditional Klezmer bands have given way to offshoots into the avant- and jazz, and this is where a novelty gets interesting. ...
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