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Stefan Keune / Sandy Ewen / Damon Smith: Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live At Moers
by Mark Corroto
This recording from the Moers Festival in May 2023, Germany, is dedicated to the late Hans Schneider. Bassist and label curator Damon Smith has made it a lifelong practice to seek out and collaborate with his musical heroes, a list that includes Jaap Blonk, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Kaiser and Vinny Golia. Naturally, that list also honors ...
Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia
by Mark Corroto
In 2025, the Collegium Cardinalium, or College of Cardinals--a body formed in the Middle Ages--convened a conclave in Rome to elect a new Pope for the Catholic Church. Nearly five centuries before the inception of such conclaves, Tibetan Buddhists established their own process of succession by searching for the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, often discovered ...
Wheelhouse: House and Home
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist, producer, composer, event organizer and label chief Dave Rempis circles back to one of his most essential ensembles. In 2012, Aerophonic Records released Boss of the Plains by the drummer-less trio of Rempis, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, and bassist Nate McBride. Formed in 2005, when McBride moved to Chicago from Boston, the trio spent ...
Grand/Nebbia/Sánchez/Mendenhall/Fernández: Altered Visions
by Mark Corroto
In July 1967, The Beatles released the single “All You Need Is Love," with “Baby, You're a Rich Man" on the flip side. It's not that the quintet performing “Wild Marks," the 33-minute track comprising the entirety of Altered Visions, is covering that Lennon-McCartney anthem. But the music presented here embodies the spirit of the idea ...
Misha Mengelberg / Sabu Toyozumi: The Analects Of Confucius
by Mark Corroto
Come for the music of Dutch pianist Misha Mengelberg, and stay for Sabu Toyozumi. Or perhaps you are here for the Japanese drummer--the first non-American invited into the ranks of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)--and are thrilled to hear him engage in a distinctly Japanese take on the New Dutch Swing. Either ...
Kārlis Auziņš Double Trio: Equilibrium Suite
by Mark Corroto
Latvian saxophonist Kārlis Auziņš would never, we can assume, claim that his Equilibrium Suite stands as the equal of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964). His reverence for Coltrane's seminal work is too deep. Still, listeners may find themselves drawing a natural connection--celebrating Auziņš's own modern spiritual statement, one forged with sincerity, originality and purpose. ...
Three-Layer Cake: Sounds The Color Of Grounds
by Mark Corroto
The trio of Mike Watt, Brandon Seabrook and Mike Pride began as a pandemic-era experiment, exchanging music files remotely to create Stove Top (RareNoise, 2021). Now, as Three-Layer Cake, they return with Sounds The Color Of Grounds, a record that reveals a fully realized and cohesive jazz-punk--or perhaps punk-jazz--ensemble. Watt, etched into punk rock's ...
Dave Burrell / Sam Woodyard: The Lost Session, Paris 1979
by Mark Corroto
Listeners would be hard-pressed to name another artist besides Dave Burrell who commands such mastery across jazz's entire timeline, from its ragtime origins to its most adventurous avant-garde territories. The pianist, born in 1940, brings equal authenticity to Jelly Roll Morton's classic compositions and completely free improvisation. His discography spans the works of Thelonious Monk, Billy ...
Jason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies, Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations
by Mark Corroto
Violinist Jason Kao Hwang is the kind of collaborator every creative improviser dreams of having. His résumé reads like a who's who of avant-garde jazz, including partnerships with Butch Morris, Henry Threadgill, William Parker, Ivo Perelman, Anthony Braxton, and Steve Swell, among others. Hwang's musical versatility and deeply intuitive improvisational sensibility have made him a sought-after ...
Josh Sinton: Couloir & Book of Practitioners, Volume 2 (Book W)
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Josh Sinton returns once more to the work of Steve Lacy, crafting a two-disc set that bridges meticulous study and spontaneous creation. One disc features interpretations of Lacy's exercises, the other, titled Couloir, presents a series of free improvisations. Lacy (1934--2004), who began his musical journey in Dixieland jazz before becoming a seminal figure in ...
