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Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Supernova
by Mark Corroto
Cuban Pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba burst onto the American jazz scene in the early 1990s with his over-caffeinated piano gymnastics. To be fair to the young performer, he had musical talent beyond his years, and with the State Departments restrictions on his appearances in the US he would squeeze an entire tour into one night’s concert. Since ...
Paolo Di Sabatino: Threeo
by Mark Corroto
In 1990 the great hard-bop drummer Art Blakey passed from this earth. His bands had been delivering “the message” for nearly fifty years. Also in 1990, pianist Paolo Di Sabatino graduated from the Conservatory of baritone, Italy. This young man could have, probably would have been an excellent fit in Blakey’s Messengers. His piano concepts fit ...
H.i.M.: New Features
by Mark Corroto
When is rock music jazz? I’m not talking jazz/rock fusion, but rocked-out jazz. In the case of the latest music experimentations by the band know as HiM, calling their music jazz would be like labeling Wynton Marsalis avant-garde. Founder and multi-instrumentalist Doug Scharin and his brainchild have been through more style changes than Elton John’s wardrobe. ...
Marilyn Crispell/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian: Amaryllis
by Mark Corroto
If the Crispell/Peacock/Motian record Nothing Ever Was, Anyway (ECM 1997) was the coming-out party for this highly adventurous interactive trio, Amaryllis should begin a series of anticipated recording sessions. Crispell, classically trained, came to jazz late in life. She held the piano chair in Anthony Braxton’s quartet through the 1980s and 90s then went on to ...
Misere et Cordes: Au Ni Kita
by Mark Corroto
Conditionally free improvisation has gestures and flow systems that is, at times, predictable and limiting. Often noisy sessions based on blowing and energy have obstructions that can lead to impatience. Misere et Cordes is neither overly boisterous nor overtly zealous. The musicians open your ears (and mind) to a fresh experience. This ‘guitar’ quartet record combines ...
Sherman Irby: Black Warrior
by Mark Corroto
In today’s jazz scene, playing within the tradition can get you both overlooked and out of a major label contract. Alto saxophonist Sherman Irby is familiar with jazz conventions and is also launching his own label Black Warrior Records. Jazz’s present preoccupation with all things beats-and-groove related has cast away its young lions for jazz/rock fusion ...
Fred Anderson/Robert Barry: Duets 2001
by Mark Corroto
The Fred Anderson love-fest continues, and I, for one, am pleased to be onboard. The seventy-something tenor saxophonist seems to get better and better with each release. A veteran of the Chicago jazz scene, and a founding member of the AACM, Anderson has played with everyone from Charlie Parker to Ken Vandermark. While early inspiration may ...
Greg Osby: Symbols Of Light (A Solution)
by Mark Corroto
With ten previous Blue Note recordings now behind him, Greg Osby’s jazz ship still flies under jazz stardom’s radar. Perhaps it is because he has neither taken the Young Lion’s bebop-rehash approach to music, nor shunned popular appeal and played free jazz. His music, like Charlie Parker 45 years before him, has always been about taking ...
Haazz & Company: Unlawful Noise
by Mark Corroto
Despite propaganda to the contrary, creative music was very much alive and kicking in the mid-seventies. Major American labels dumped Joe Henderson and The Art Ensemble of Chicago for electric jazz-fusion and pop, forcing improvising artists into the Loft scene, and to self-produced small (actually tiny) label production. In the days before the internet and with ...
Han Bennink & Terrie Ex: The Laughing Owl
by Mark Corroto
This reviewer hesitates to give advice on how to listen to any particular recording, but this collection of duos between Terrie Ex and Han Bennink contains almost too much information, too much energy, to digest in one, straight-through listening experience. Bennink, the nearly 60 year-old Dutch drummer and artist has recorded with large ensembles (ICP Orchestra), ...
