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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 ...
Brian Trainor: Monk & Me
by Mark Corroto
For a few years in the early 90s I ran a coffeehouse that weekly (some say weakly) presented local jazz acts. From fusion to solo piano, I had but one requirement of any musician. Play at least one Thelonious Monk tune per night and the gig was yours. Deviously simple, Monk’s music always separates the talented ...
Jay Azzolina: Past Tense
by Mark Corroto
Jay Azzolina proves there are second acts in American culture. The onetime guitarist for Sypro Gyra (read on it gets better), Jeff Beal, Herbie Mann, Chuck Mangione, and Fred Hersch cast-off his fusion demons for an acoustic-accompanied outing. Sure I had my doubts, but as soon as the opener, “Ben Hur, Ben Him,” begins he’s all ...
Patrick Zimmerli: Expansion
by Mark Corroto
It was a hot and humid summer day a few years ago as I asked the ticket seller which of the 10 movies showing was the longest. That was the lone criteria for me to catch director John Salles' Lone Star. You see, normally I go in for escapist science fiction, car chase, and suspense movies, ...
Phil Palombi: 80 East
by Mark Corroto
In an interview recorded as an afterthought to American Classic, a 1982 Dexter Gordon session, the then sixty-one year old tenor saxophonist was asked about the future of jazz. He replied, “Bebop is the music of the future.” His return to the US from a self imposed exile not only signaled the resurgence of bebop but ...
James Carter: Chasin' The Gypsy/Layin' In The Cut
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist James Carter is the Derek Jeter of jazz. Like the New York Yankee shortstop, he is long on talent and even longer on attitude. For all of us Yankee-haters, we wait for a Jeter error and grudgingly recognize his physical genius. Similarly, Carter’s attitude has created many a jazz detractor, ready to leap upon any ...
Sam Rivers' RivBea All-Star Orchestra: Culmination
by Mark Corroto
Recorded at the same session as last year’s Inspiration, the follow up disc Culmination delivers more of the same goods. Sam Rivers, long exiled (by choice) to Orlando, FL, has been making music in semi-obscurity for the past few decades with many of the Disney-based musicians. In this environs Rivers has total control over composition and ...
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