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Charles Earland: The Almighty Burner
by Mark Corroto
The organ-jazz revival of the 1990s brought a flood of reissues from Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, and John Patton along with the new stars of the organ Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Goldings, and John Medeski. Charles Earland’s career got a boost too, reviving his 1960’s soul sound. Earland a bop-ishly straight-ahead B-3 man, died last year at ...
Boundry Issues: Beginnings And Endings
by Mark Corroto
There was something wrong with jazz-fusion of the 1970s and 80s. You could just instinctively feel it. But what was missing? After Miles Davis ushered in electric instruments (or was it the electrocution of jazz?) with Bitches Brew, the doors flew open to all sorts of characters. There was the electric violin of John Luc Ponty, ...
Charles Brown: Blues And Other Love Songs
by Mark Corroto
Labeled as a blues singer, pianist Charles Brown walks the line between jazz, blues and a long lost genre, popular music. Born in 1922 and classically trained on the ivories, Brown began singing during wartime and was often compared to Nat King Cole. During the forties and fifties, singing R&B didn’t mean rap nor did it ...
Sonny Simmons: Manhattan Ego
by Mark Corroto
It is easy to forget the humanity of jazz as we the listener, collector, critic examine the music of creativity. With our digital age, re-mastering and access to most of the first hundred years of jazz, we move effortlessly backwards and forwards through time tasting Jelly Roll, James Carter, and George Gershwin. Discovery of Armstrong’s Hot ...
The Blue Noise Band: Multi-Purpose
by Mark Corroto
The music, call it jazz, The Blue Noise Band plays is like a joy ride in a stolen car, all good fun, that is till someone gets hurt. Jazz today is supposed to be about traditional family values like the blues and swing. Boys, boys...why be so hurtful to Stanley Crouch and Albert Murray? I’ll tell ...
Benny Green: Naturally
by Mark Corroto
Pity Benny Green. Born 30 years too late, his fantastic piano technique isn’t the stuff of heated debates. The heir to Oscar Peterson’s legacy, Green’s trio work of the 1990s never made one choose sides, like Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Erroll Garner, and Dave Brubeck fans once did. After a successful run of Blue Note records, Green ...
Charles Earland: The Almighty Burner
by Mark Corroto
The organ-jazz revival of the 1990s brought a flood of reissues from Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, and John Patton along with the new stars of the organ Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Goldings, and John Medeski. Charles Earland’s career got a boost too, reviving his 1960’s soul sound. Earland a bop-ishly straight-ahead B-3 man, died last year at ...
Michael Vlatkovich: TorontoLive
by Mark Corroto
Whoever said that the saxophone most closely resembles the human voice probably never heard Michael Vlatkovich’s trombone. Actually Vlatkovich sounds a lot like my uncle Rocco. He always sounded a bit tipsy, even when he wasn’t drinking. When Rocco enters a room, everyone knows it, Blap, Fwap...everyone’s happy. When Vlatkovich speaks, er sings, it’s the same ...
Pablo Bobrowicky: Where We Are
by Mark Corroto
Writing about jazz is made more difficult when you are presented with a nearly perfect recording. What can you say about Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue or John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme ? Because the recording is itself complete, words fail. I go to a tried and true method (with close friends only, please), buy the ...
David Berkman: Communication Theory
by Mark Corroto
The difficult thing about David Berkman’s music is categorizing it. The second outing under his name cannot be pinned down to a specific line of musical tradition, musical artists, or styles. He is as much about a 21st century Brooklyn as he is about Andrew Hill and Wayne Shorter. Although this is a piano-led album, I ...
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