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Tony Malaby: Sabino
by Mark Corroto
Finding your way in the jazz world is tricky these days. You are rewarded for playing music within the ‘jazz tradition’ but also penalized for not ‘having your own voice.’ Actually making it, has always been a sticky wicket. Think about artists like Herbie Nichols and Elmo Hope who stuck too their individual visions, but lived ...
Medeski Martin & Wood: The Dropper
by Mark Corroto
I picked up the latest disc by the trio Medeski Martin & Wood and trying to categorize it, I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition. (Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Their chief weapon is surprise and fear... their two weapons are surprise, fear, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope...among...their...weapons are surprise, fear, an almost fanatical ...
Branford Marsalis: Contemporary Jazz
by Mark Corroto
Although the penultimate release from Branford Marsalis was entitled Requiem, this outing for sure embodies a fitting tribute to Kenny Kirkland. The pianist died mid-recording of Branford’s last disc, shocking the young saxophonist and causing him to find a new rhythm section leader. Well actually Tain Watts is the center of any rhythm scene wherever he ...
Wallace Roney: No Room For Argument
by Mark Corroto
In the mid-eighties I caught the great drummer Tony Williams’ band live. Williams, a member of Miles Davis’ second great quintet, had been making some pretty interesting music leading a band of youngsters including bassist Ira Coleman, saxophonist Billy Pierce, and trumpeter Wallace Roney. His music was a natural extension of those great sixties records and ...
Yusek Lateef/Adam Rudolph: Beyond The Sky
by Mark Corroto
Like many a jazz listener, I roll my eyes and flip radio stations when the announcer calls out the next tune as ‘world music.’ I do this because what every jazz fan knows is all music is world music, and jazz is the ultimate synthesis of the world’s music. Many of today’s ‘world music’ artists are ...
Andrea Centazzo/Steve Lacy: Clangs
by Mark Corroto
Just as significant as Atavistic's Unheard Music Series and those scholarly boxes from Mosaic Records is the ICTUS reissue series on New Tone. Percussionist Andrea Centazzo and his wife Carla Lugli started their own label. Like Incus from the UK, ICTUS was run by artists for creative artists. Prompted by the war in Bosnia, Centazzo relented ...
Branford Marsalis: Contemporary Jazz
by Mark Corroto
Although the penultimate release from Branford Marsalis was entitled Requiem, this outing for sure embodies a fitting tribute to Kenny Kirkland. The pianist died mid-recording of Branford’s last disc, shocking the young saxophonist and causing him to find a new rhythm section leader. Well actually Tain Watts is the center of any rhythm scene wherever he ...
McCoy Tyner: Jazz Roots
by Mark Corroto
Pianist McCoy Tyner is the anti-Miles and the anti-(modern) Jarrett. Not that he is their competitor, but that Tyner applies himself to the piano in such a converse manner. Where Miles Davis let the silence between notes speak, Tyner fills almost all the space. The new millenium version of Keith Jarrett, recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome, ...
Jacques Chanier Trio: Kite Flight
by Mark Corroto
If Exuberance is defined as uninhibited enthusiasm, pianist Jacques Chanier’s original outing as a leader can be defined as exhilarating. The Paris (France not Texas) born, Berklee-schooled Boston resident has immersed himself in the American medium know as jazz. Specifically bebop, post-bop, contemplative, Shorter-esqe jazz. His prior recordings as sideman were with the Henry Cook Band, ...
Anthony Braxton: Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, V. 2
by Mark Corroto
Listening to Anthony Braxton’s piano albums (my count is up to five now) I always get the visual image that occasionally opens the British television show Monty Python’s Flying Circus, of comedian John Cleese. Usually you would hear Cleese playing the piano long before you saw him, the camera panning across some forest or beach scene ...
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