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John Butcher/Xavier Charles/Axel Dorner: The Contest Of Pleasures
by Mark Corroto
The occasion of this live recording was a jazz festival in Hulhouse, at the southern end of Alsace. The musicians, Jon Butcher, Xavier Charles, and Axel Dorner came together in the Chapelle Saint-Jean on a hot August day in 2000, to create spontaneous music. What was captured was on overtly patient documentation of three improvisors working ...
Wayne Horvitz: From A Window
by Mark Corroto
Of the many incarnations the music of Seattle-based Wayne Horvitz takes on, his Four Plus One Ensemble is the most contemplative. The one-time member of John Zorn’s Naked City and The New York Composers Orchestra has of recent days headed for a rocked-out West coast with his bands Pigpen and Zony Mash. 4 + 1 shares ...
Jim Hall: Jim Hall & Basses
by Mark Corroto
A bit leery of concept records, I wondered what some of my best friends would think of Jim Hall’s latest record, Jim Hall & Basses. Given Hall’s musical philosophy of treating the bass as if it were a fellow guitar, these duets and trio tracks sustain interest throughout. Jim Hall, in his fifth decade of jazz, ...
rev.99: Turn A Deaf Ear
by Mark Corroto
The French Situationalist movement of the 1960s for the most part has been ignored here in the United States, but its call to re-examine art, media, and culture has been taken up by writer/poet 99 Hooker and the musicians that make up rev.99. Their “environmental improv,” Turn A Deaf Ear mixing rants with new experimental improvisation ...
Charles Lloyd: Hyperion With Higgins
by Mark Corroto
Culled from the same session that brought us the excellent Water Is Wide recording from last year, Hyperion With Higgins delivers more of the same commendable music. With a heavy heart, saxophone Charles Lloyd bids farewell to his friend, drummer Billy Higgins who passed away this year. Both Higgins and Lloyd are jazz masters who have ...
Juan Carlos Quintero: Los Musicos
by Mark Corroto
To call certain music ‘Latin fusion’ is to speak in redundancy. Just about all Latin, like America’s jazz music, is a fusion or amalgamation of many styles. Guitarist Juan Carlos Quintero’s motto is “if it works and sounds good adopt it.” On his fourth release as leader the Colombian-born, New Jersey resident (by way of Brussels) ...
Chicago Underground Quartet: Chicago Underground Quartet
by Mark Corroto
Heirs to Sun Ra’s legacy of creative music, the Chicago Underground Quartet provides proof of such honor with their self-named release. The Chicago Underground, be it in duo, trio or their present four-man lineup, cover open-ended creative music with feet planted in the avant-garde’s past and music’s future. The band’s members shuffled between gigs in numerous ...
Rich Halley: Coyotes In The City
by Mark Corroto
What is the significance of saxophonist Rich Halley’s formal education in field biology? To answer that question, I might pose the same question for trumpeter Eddie Henderson’s medical studies or saxophonist Charles Gayle’s devotion to his faith. To paraphrase Charlie Parker, “If you don’t live it, it cannot come out of your horn.” For a musician ...
Jimmy Bruno: Midnight Blue
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Jimmy Bruno, known for his flawless bop guitar, spreads himself in many directions for his latest disc, a seventh for Concord records. The Philadelphia native's adventure on Midnight Blue takes him from modal jazz to jazz-funk and soul, in other words, a 21st century 'back to the future.' This session, recorded with an all-Philly lineup, ...
HiM: 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. ...
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