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Steve Griggs Quintet: Jone For Elvin Vol. 2
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Steve Griggs convinced legendary drummer Elvin Jones to record a session with four Seattle musicians in 1998. His Jones for Elvin was covered in the November 1999 reviews section. He is back with additional tracks, more Elvin and great music. This edition has seven tracks, six Griggs’ originals and the standard “The More I See ...
Harold Mabern: Maya With Love
by Mark Corroto
There are few pianists to with whom you directly associate their hometown like Harold Mabern. Rarely is his name mentioned without stating Memphis. I guess it is a tribute to the city and to Mabern’s mentor Phineas Newborn Jr. Mabern and fellow pianists Mulgrew Miller, Geoff Keezer, and James Williams paid tribute to Newborn with their ...
Christopher Jentsch Trio: Media Event
by Mark Corroto
For baby-boomers and their children, the guitar has been the delivery system for most music we hear. Bars never hold air- clavichord competitions for a very good reason. Those six-strings were freedom to a Vietnam generation and a common vocabulary for all listeners. Perhaps the guitar more than any instrument allows beginners and startup bands to ...
Fred Anderson Quartet: Milwaukee Tapes Vol. 1/Live At The Velvet Lounge Volume Two
by Mark Corroto
The beauty listening to jazz is the ability to move backwards in time while discovering ‘new’ artists and charting their careers. For instance, a Miles Davis fan can step into his electric/funk records and follow them back to John Coltrane through Wayne Shorter, all the while researching the modern career of Shorter or picking up discs ...
Peter Br: Nipples
by Mark Corroto
Out of print for nearly 30 years, Nipples is showing itself (sorry) once again. The collector's dream Euro free jazz LP made it to CD thanks to writer/musician John Corbett's Unheard Music series for the Atavistic label. Along with other lost and unreleased gems, Corbett is bringing to light historically significant recordings by artists, some popular ...
Harry Allen/Bill Charlap Trio: Plays Ellington Songs
by Mark Corroto
Duke Ellington fans are an odd lot, and it took last years celebration of the centennial of his birth to bring out the crankiest of Ellington cranks. What follows is not my review of tenor saxophonist Harry Allen's tribute to Ellington, but real and mostly imagined reactions. You see, as a jazz fan, I haven't immersed ...
Danny Zamir: Satlah
by Mark Corroto
Alto saxophonist Danny Zamir is the first John Zorn disciple that I can recall (except for the crazy Naked City cover band Prelapse). The young Israeli moved to New York a few years back to, I suspect, emerge himself into the Downtown scene. His debut recording takes Zorn’s Masada as a starting point, but is soon ...
Lee Konitz: Sound Of Surprise
by Mark Corroto
New Lee Konitz records have recently been coming out at a rate to match David Murray’s output of the early 1990s. There are my favorites, the two Blue Note live sessions with Brad Mehldau and Charlie Haden, Alone Together and Another Shade Of Blue. Also, Three Guys (Enja) with Paul Motian and Steve Swallow, Dig It ...
Chicago Underground Duo: Synesthesia
by Mark Corroto
Chicago's jazz and new music scene seems free from the heavy peer pressure foisted upon the New York Downtown crowd. Where New York's creative musicians tend toward holding things close to their chests, their Chi-town counter-parts are continually forming new bands, interchanging parts and creating music without the self consciousness and over-examination that goes on at ...
Eric Alexander: The First Milestone
by Mark Corroto
Eric Alexander suffers from an ailment we’ll call Joe Lovano disease. Like his one time professor, Alexander so fluidly handles bebop patterns with relative ease that listeners dismiss his talent for casualness. His less-than-showman approach scores high with critics and fellow musicians but discovery by a wide audience requires style that has nothing to do with ...
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