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Tim Berne: The Shell Game
by Mark Corroto
The latest incarnation of alto saxophonist and composer Tim Berne is his trio Quicksand, which also includes drummer Tom Rainey and keyboardist Craig Taborn. On The Shell Game, this group explores a series of extended form, post-millennial compositions that appear from thin air, apply waves of tension, then release and disappear into nothingness. Berne, a disciple ...
Mat Maneri: Trinity
by Mark Corroto
Listening to Mat Maneri’s solo outing Trinity, one often finds one's imagination working overtime. The 32 year old violinist, son of jazz legend Joe Maneri, explores his unique vision of free chamber jazz without the aid of collaborators--leaving wide-open spaces for the listener to fill in. Maneri, a child prodigy, began a classical career only to ...
Matt Wilson: Arts And Crafts
by Mark Corroto
If jazz is truly an American art form and said to represent all of America, then it cannot be considered strictly an urban sound. John Coltrane might have developed his ideas in Philadelphia, but he and Thelonious Monk are from rural communities in North Carolina. Even the Brooks Brothers clad Miles Davis grew up in St. ...
Mats Gustafsson/Barry Guy: Frogging
by Mark Corroto
Spontaneous creative music, i.e. ‘free jazz,’ usually tends toward high-energy output and daredevil antics. The appeal is like that of theater, generated in the immediacy of the moment and sometimes the physicality of the creation. The charms of spontaneous music are often lost in the conversion from ‘live’ event to recorded disc. Nothing though seems lost ...
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 ...
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