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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 ...
Alex Blake: Now Is The Time
by Mark Corroto
Randy Weston’s secret is revealed on this live date from New York’s Knitting Factory. But anyone who has seen the tall pianist knows his rhythm secret is Alex Blake. The Panamanian-born, New York-raised bassist started out with Mongo Santamaria and toured with Sun Ra and Dizzy Gillespie. For the past decade he has been touring and ...
Harriet Tubman: Prototype
by Mark Corroto
The second ‘strange meeting’ between the members of the thumping power trio known as Harriet Tubman was recorded live in New York, Finland, and The Netherlands. Why bassist Melvin Gibbs choose to reincarnate his previous band Power Tools can be answered by noting the sales of powered amps and woofers over the past decade. Gibbs, guitarist ...
The Lost Trio: Remembrance Of Songs Past
by Mark Corroto
Listening to The Lost Trio play their versions of mostly jazz standards reminds me of Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West recording. With the same lineup, Rollins, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Shelley Manne took the corny western classics like “I’m An Old Cowhand” and turned them to hip jazz numbers. Here, The Lost Trio takes the ...
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 ...
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