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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), ...
Roy Campbell's Pyramid Trio: Ethnic Stew And Brew
by Mark Corroto
Trumpeter Roy Campbell’s music reminds one of the art of saxophonist Albert Ayler. Like Ayler, Campbell’s approach is to swallow all musical concepts, converting ‘world-music’ into one-music. His playing can emanate pure improvisation, like in the quartet Other Dimensions In Music, and the trumpeter can also maintain that improvisational touch in the large band of William ...
Johnny Griffin/Steve Grossman: Griffin & Grossman Quintet
by Mark Corroto
The welcome return of the fire-breathing bebop tenor saxophonist is well, music to my ears. Ex-patriot saxophonists Johnny Griffin and Steve Grossman team up for an old fashioned blowing session. This date recorded for the French label, Dreyfus Records, calls to mind Griffin’s legendary recording date A Blowing Session with John Coltrane and Hank Mobley in ...
Irvin Mayfield: How Passion Falls
by Mark Corroto
The Jeopardy answer is: “This young hip New Orleans trumpeter has jazz chops on loan from Louis Armstrong." Your response might be: “Who is Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, or Irvin Mayfield?” Maybe it’s something they put in the juleps, because there is no shortage of trumpet talent coming out of the Crescent City. Twenty-two ...
David Murray: Like A Kiss That Never Ends
by Mark Corroto
Ever since David Murray's arrival on the seventies New York loft scene, he has been hailed as the heir to Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, and Ben Webster. He has also been assailed for lacking imagination, proper technique, and authenticity. Perhaps this wide range of opinion reflects the fact that Murray has spoken with many voices over ...
Archie Shepp: St. Louis Blues
by Mark Corroto
Several recent sightings of the ‘bird’ known as Archie Shepp signal, perhaps, his return to the American dialogue on jazz. Last year, Shepp made a guest appearance on guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly’s African/urban Boom Bop record and the year before he was the featured guest of Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio recording, Conversations. Shepp’s voice in the 1960’s ...
Mose Allison: The Mose Chronicles - Live In London, Vol. 1
by Mark Corroto
With fifty-plus years of performance behind him, the 73 year-old Mose Allison continues to perform 125 shows per year. The Mississippi-born pianist traveled to New York in 1951, but his music has never left the Delta. His brand of blues-inflected jazz was first inspired by Louis Jordan and his piano trio has been heavily influenced by ...
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