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Ray Brown Trio: Live At Starbucks
by Mark Corroto
Perhaps one of the reasons for the decline in jazz as a popular music is that the listening experience should be live. Its life force rarely transfers itself through the recording process. In the studio, where actions are inscribed in permanence, artists require take after take to “make it perfect.” But jazz isn’t about perfect, or ...
Whirled Jazz: Mukilteo
by Mark Corroto
Whirled Jazz is a band that produces music that is beyond an easy categorization. Take the title track from their recent release, Mikilteo, my mental picture was that of a reenactment of Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue session substituting Paul Desmond and Roswell Rudd as a front line. But “Mikilteo” and this session is more modern ...
Luc Houtkamp: The Field Recordings No. 1/6/7
by Mark Corroto
The mostly self-taught saxophonist of The Netherlands Luc Houtkamp reveals a style spawned in the freedom of the 1960s but beholden to no one period. Houtkamp, born 1953, has collaborated with Han Bennink, Ernst Reisjeger, Jon Rose, and Eugene Chadbourne. Last year he was featured on the American release Luc Houtkamp In Chicago (Entropy Stereo) along ...
Michael Musillami: Archives/Mar's Bars/Groove Teacher
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Michael Musillami recorded three sessions with Thomas Chapin between 1990 and 1994. Chapin was an extraordinary human being and musician who died of leukemia in 1998 at age 40. His high level of energy and imagination permeates throughout these recordings and it is a blessing they have been released on Playscape Recordings. Chapin studied jazz ...
Larry Goldings Trio: As One
by Mark Corroto
The words “graceful” and “organist” can almost never be used in the same sentence. But the agile fingering of Larry Goldings is anything but the coarse, gritty soul music that you hear everywhere. His follow-up to the 1999 Moonbird trio session and the Peter Bernstein-led 1997 trio Earth Tones (Criss Cross) is his best work to ...
Enten Eller & Tim Berne (Splasc: Auto da fe
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Tim Berne returns to record a second disc with the Italian band Enten Eller. This date like the 1999 recording Melquades, also on the Italian Spasc(H) Records, is more than a blowing session. Additionally, this recording is also more than either Berne fitting into Enten Eller’s musical system, or they his. Trumpeter Alberto Mandarini (Italian ...
Jean-Paul Bourelly: Boom Bop
by Mark Corroto
Jazz has always been about the fusion the different music. And at one time way back, so was rock, country and classical. Now they become what is called ‘cross-over’ music, usually a watered down sound, that neither genre finds acceptable. Guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly probably doesn’t consider himself a jazz musician, with all the limitations the definition ...
George Benson: Breezin'
by Mark Corroto
Thanks to George Benson sometime in 1977 I became a jazz fan. I'm not sure how I stumbled upon his release Breezin', maybe it was its triple-platinum sales or maybe its three Grammy awards. Nonetheless, this Bruce Springsteen rock fan fell for Benson's bluesy guitar sound and wordless vocals. I was also listening to Chuck Mangione ...
Martial Solal: Martial Solal Dodecaband Plays Ellington
by Mark Corroto
There are only two things missing from Martial Solal's Duke Ellington tribute, Ellington's arrangements and Solal's voice. Solal, born in French Algiers in 1927, has been a staple of the Paris jazz scene since the 1950s. His piano has accompanied Don Byas, Lucky Thompson, Sidney Bechet, and Lee Konitz. He was recently nominated for a Grammy ...
Joao Paulo & Peter Epstein: Esquina
by Mark Corroto
The two-microphone approach MA Records utilizes in this recording by Portuguese pianist Joao Paulo and American Peter Epstein is reminiscent of the large, lush “ECM sound.” Recorded in the Saint George British Anglican Church in Lisbon, Portugal, this richly acoustical, rather large sound environment is a treat for audiophiles. Where the “ECM sound” sometimes comes under ...
