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Joel Frahm: The Navigator
by Mark Corroto
Joel Frahm’s second disc as leader has all the trappings of a John Coltrane legacy recording. Sure that’s a heavy burden, but one he proves worthy. Like his 1999 disc Sorry, No Decaf, Frahm mines hard-bop with a self-admission (like Coltrane) that he is not comfortable on up-tempo tunes. Fine, grace not speed signifies great art. ...
Spaceways Incorporatd: Vandermark/Drake/McBride: Thirteen Cosmic Standards
by Mark Corroto
With the news and financial security from receiving the MacArthur Genius Grant behind him, all eyes turn to Ken Vandermark in anticipation of his next move. The one-time Hal Russell apprentice is equally at home in free jazz settings (Caffeine), rocked-out noise bands (Flying Luttenbachers), and inside composed groups (Vandermark 5). His last effort Design In ...
Porterhouse Quintet: Thumbs Up little Buddy
by Mark Corroto
Sometimes a band comes along that defines a time, plants a flag as a marker of human musical evolution on this planet. The Porterhouse Quintet is just such a band, but the time is circa 1975. Porterhouse resurrects a time when fusion meant jazz/funk not jazz/rock or today’s jazz/cheese. Grover Washington’s Mister Magic was the vinyl ...
Lemeshev/Shepik/Scherr: Tridruga
by Mark Corroto
Apologies to Huey Lewis, but it is indeed so very hip to be square these days. Instruments like the clarinet and accordian are making their way back into jazz today. The trio of ‘three friends’ is a translation of Tridruga and at its very hip center is accordionist Yuri Lemeshev. Guitarist Brad Shepik, a fan of ...
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 ...
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