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Satoko Fujii Orchestra: Double Take
by Mark Corroto
Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii has grabbed plenty of attention in the cutting edge jazz community. After briefly studying classical music, she came to America and breezed through the Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory. Her mentors have included Paul Bley and George Russell, and along with her Japanese heritage and classical background produced a ...
Andrew Hill: Dusk
by Mark Corroto
Alfred Lion, founder of Blue Note records, reaction to encountering pianist Andrew Hill's music said it was exactly like the experience he had the first time he heard Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols. Lion and Blue Note devoted most of the 1960s to recording sessions for Hill. His sixties sessions were unique post-Monk visions somewhere between ...
Ben Monder: Excavation
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Ben Monder inhabits an ethereal world where jazz is created for deep space. Setting aside typical jazz meters and swing he plays with a detached consciousness. This recording, his second for Arabesque, follows up Monder’s trio recording Dust. Monder augments the trio of bassist Skuli Sverrisson (Pachora, Chris Speed, Human Feel), drummer Jim Black (Tiny ...
Roy Nathanson: Fire At Keaton's Bar & Grill
by Mark Corroto
Roy Nathanson has always been a storyteller. In the late 1980s, his band with Curtis Fowlkes, called the Jazz Passengers, echoed the voices he heard from his New York streets. Deranged and Decomposed and Broken Night/Red Light, both nearly impossible to find recordings, spoke of multi-ethnic ramblings, preachers, and strange drugs. Nathanson also wrote music for ...
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 ...
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