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Br: Shadows
by Mark Corroto
Peter Brötzmann is reunited with Japanese drummer Shoji Hano and guitarist Keiji Haino for a European tour last March. This live date recorded at Wels, Austria is about as raw and true a musical expression as it gets. Brötzmann has recorded and worked with each musician separately. He recorded Dare Devil (DIW) in 1991 with Hano ...
Misha Mengelberg: Solo
by Mark Corroto
The intimacy of jazz has always been its most powerful draw. The listener, somewhat of a voyeur to the musician’s inner soul, is positioned either at a live concert, or in the case of a quality recording, at a comfortable (or uncomfortable) distance. Here the listener catches the creative act at its fountainhead. Misha Mengelberg’s music ...
Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Solus
by Mark Corroto
Wandering minds might want to know. Pondering souls can take comfort, as meditation on sound confers solace. As abstract as Ernesto Diaz-Infante’s Solus is, it never displays perplexity, invasion, or ire. The San Francisco based composer plays solo piano on thirteen individually numbered improvisations that eschew swing for an internal rhythm not apparent on first listen. ...
George Garzone: The Fringe In New York
by Mark Corroto
Sometime after the death of John Coltrane and before the rise of the conservative button-down star as repertoire performer, the influence that Trane had over jazz waned. It’s not that he was forgotten, but that his music required such a commitment from a musician that it must have scared away most by sheer intimidation. Within the ...
Bill Evans Trio: The Last Waltz
by Mark Corroto
Bill Evans died, at the age of 51, on Sept 15, 1980. In what has been described by friends and family as “slow suicide," he finally succumbed to the effects of the years of substance abuse. Like Charlie Parker before him the world was alternatively too beautiful and too ugly to endure. For fans of Bill ...
Sonny Rollins: This Is What I Do
by Mark Corroto
What do you expect from Sonny Rollins? He has been recording music for over 50 years now and continues to hold sell out concerts all over the globe. His genius has been the ability to create instantaneous music (AKA improvise) night-after-night. Unlike say, Mick Jagger who we expect to perform “Satisfaction" the same every night, Sonny's ...
Satoko Fujii: Toward, "To West"
by Mark Corroto
Coming on the heels of the impressive big band record Double Take, Satoko Fujii’s trio record lofts her onto a creative pinnacle in modern music. The young female Japanese pianist was a former student of Paul Bley and also a former classical piano prodigy. Her rejection of the classical doctrine was not a rejection of a ...
Frank Carlberg: Variations On A Summer Day
by Mark Corroto
Adapting the poetry of Wallace Stevens to music is an almost natural task for Frank Carlberg. The ex-lawyer turned insurance executive (Stevens not Carlberg) wrote from pure imagination. His early associations had been with the New York intelligentsia, including William Carlos Williams and Marcel Duchamp. Carlberg, a Finnish born pianist and composer has been a frequent ...
H.I.M.: Our Point Of Departure
by Mark Corroto
The band known as HiM need not explain their name to us. Like Sting or Prince we wonder how to address their music. Is it Mr. HiM, those HiM guys? Or maybe they should have called themselves Teo, because the name Macero comes to mind every time I hear their discs. Point Of Departure follows up ...
John Zorn: The Big Gundown
by Mark Corroto
Part Holy Grail, part Rosetta stone, John Zorn’s 1985 release The Big Gundown was for the many the portent of the Downtown scene’s birth. For this listener, it was my introduction to John Zorn and many Downtown artists that I have listened to these past fifteen years, including: Arto Lindsay, Wayne Horvitz, Bobby Previte, Tim Berne, ...
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