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Paul Brusger: You Oughta Know It
by Mark Corroto
I know it’s only hard bop, but I like it. Only hard bop, indeed! For bassist Paul Brusger, conjuring the music of McLean, Mobley, Morgan, and Miles reminds me why I’m a jazz fan. From the minute the laser hits the disc (it is the 21st century) a wave of energy hits you, simultaneously transporting you ...
Nels Cline: The Inkling
by Mark Corroto
Sometimes you are out there, listening, working the brain, catching the precious moments of truly creative music. The avant-garde today presents guitarists such as Nels Cline in digital (on disc), allowing you to listen to this Californian all the way from Iowa. But who has the time or the energy to patiently absorb harmonically challenging music? ...
Chick Corea: Solo Piano Standards/Originals
by Mark Corroto
Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, and Chick Corea’s piano careers will be forever intertwined. Born within five years of each other, each apprenticed with Miles Davis, and interestingly enough each took to the electric keyboards under Miles. The Miles Davis influence pushed each into experimentation, innovation, and to my mind redemption at the keyboards. Jarrett’s experimental Impulse! ...
Jerry Granelli & Badlands: Crowd Theory
by Mark Corroto
Drummer Jerry Granelli has always been a conceptual jazz musician. After early associations with Denny Zeitlin, Vince Guaraldi, and Ralph Towner his solo projects took on novel qualities, both for their storytelling and unique aspects. The 1992 recording A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing utilized Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter, a fictionalized biography of ...
Abraham Burton - Eric McPherson Quartet: Cause And Effect
by Mark Corroto
Obsessed fans of John Coltrane’s classic quartet are forever searching for that pure energy that Trane, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner bottled for a short time. Their music was perhaps the pinnacle of jazz’s most dynamic period. Few have tread the same path for fear of comparison and ultimately failure. Enter Abraham Burton and ...
Charlie Hunter: Charlie Hunter
by Mark Corroto
Confessions of a self-proclaimed jazz snob. I admit it. After listening to jazz for these many years, I’ve absorbed New Orleans/swing/ bop/ post-bop/hard bop, and free-jazz. I, like many of you, have little patience for the thin veil of pop music. Give me Anthony Braxton’s equations or give me death. After listening to Charlie Hunter’s latest ...
Jason Moran: Facing Left
by Mark Corroto
As I remembered it from world history, it is rarely the revolutionaries that end up ruling after their coup. The same can be said of jazz revolutionaries. Buddy Bolden, perhaps the father of jazz, never recorded. Charlie Parker, father of the bebop revolution, died at age 34 never attaining mass popularity in his lifetime. Even the ...
William Parker Trio: Painter's Spring
by Mark Corroto
For avant-garde musician William Parker, the outside can be very introspective. This prolific, giant bassist is quite the gentle soul, not an image his work with free jazz musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann, Charles Gayle, and David Ware would lead you to believe. With Painter’s Spring and his co-led recordings with Matthew Shipp and ...
Pharoah Sanders/Hamid Drake/Adam Rudolph: Spirits
by Mark Corroto
I consider Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders to be the heir to John Coltrane’s earthly mission. As a young man he was taken under Coltrane’s wing, recording the spiritually turbulent music Coltrane made on Meditations, Live In Seattle, and Live At The Village Vanguard. Sanders searing tone was a piece of the puzzle John Coltrane worked on at ...
Bobby Sanabria Big Band: Afro-Cuban Dream...Live & In Clave!!!
by Mark Corroto
Somebody wrote a lyric to Dizzy Gillespies “Manteca" that repeats the chant “we always go back to Dizzywe always go back." Indeed we do. Gillespies bebop/Cuban music hybrid, cubop, came at the perfect time in New York. Gillespie, who never took credit for the fusion, only for promoting it through his popularity, championed his Chinese music ...
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