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Amontobincapsuleisosilabrazilliaspacetimecontinuum: The Ponga Remixes
by Mark Corroto
I think I am beginning to sound like my father. Things I say remind me of him. For instance, when I opened this disc I muttered, “Remix, when I was a kid there were no remix albums.” Maybe not, but there was electric Miles’ Live Evil by way of “producer” Teo Macero, his cutting and splicing ...
Andrew Chesire: This Is Me
by Mark Corroto
I’ve heard that Georgia O’Keefe never played records as background music while she painted, nor would she play them while she ate. She loved music and believed you either listened, you painted or you ate. Multi-tasking wasn’t an option. In today’s world where we get music as background to sports highlights and the national news, listening ...
Bill Kirchner Nonet: Trance Dance
by Mark Corroto
You can’t just jump in your car these days and go check out a jazz nonet. For that matter, live jazz doesn’t exist in most of our cities, except in New York where an arm and a leg or your first born is generally the admittance price to see “the stars.” But, I digress. Back to ...
Max Roach/Jon Jang/Jiebing Chen: Beijing Trio
by Mark Corroto
Let me suggest a new name for this group. How about the American-Jing Trio? This combination of African-American Max Roach with Chinese-American Jon Jang and Jiebing Chen of China makes an improvisational music, which can be pinned, straight to a map of American music. The recording, a combination of duos and trios of Roach’s drums, Jang’s ...
Steve Slagle: Steve Slagel Plays Monk
by Mark Corroto
I propose passing a law that requires every jazz recording to include at least one Thelonious Monk song. The reason is not that Monk is my favorite composer, but that Monk’s music is some of the most difficult to play. Maybe not technically difficult for jazz professionals, but rhythmically challenging and isn’t it so easy hear ...
Various: We Remember Tal A Tribute To tal farlow
by Mark Corroto
Last year I happened to be in New York the day Tal Farlow died. I sat in a hotel room listening to the DJ play his records. What a revelation! I begged out of an invitation to dinner and continued to listen. Most of the tracks came from out-of-print vinyl sides, since little of Tal’s music ...
Nicholas Payton: Nick@Night
by Mark Corroto
A working band--Joy! It's uncommon today for major label to record their artist with his working band. But, surprisingly, Verve has done just that. Payton's quintet is a heavy swinging bop-oriented ensemble. This recording, like Miles' second great quintet, is more about band than it is about star. Individually its members have released records under their ...
Steve Griggs Quintet: Jones For Elvin
by Mark Corroto
Last year, Seattle saxophonist Steve Griggs convinced legendary drummer Elvin Jones to interrupt his West Coast tour to record a date with an ensemble of local musicians. Volume one of the two scheduled releases is more than a ‘gosh gee look who’s here’ recording. Griggs, the producer/arranger and label record label entrepreneur represents himself well on ...
Various: Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz In Los Angeles (1921-1956)
by Mark Corroto
Face it--when it comes to stories, jazz beats all other genres, hands down. Whether real or semi-fictional, tales of jazzmen are superior to anything every told of aging Betty-Ford-Clinic-rehabbed rockers. Think about Jack Kerouac’s excitement facing the Buddha-like Charlie Parker in his novel On The Road, or Michael Ondaatje’s fictionalized account of the life of Buddy ...
Matt Wilson: Smile
by Mark Corroto
This is a warning to Drummer Matt Wilson: Stop what you’re doing! Jazz is serious business. You don’t think that that Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Crouch spent all those years writing long serious diatribes on the cultural and social implications of jazz, using words like ‘fundamentalist,’ ‘nobility,’ and ‘canon,’ to allow you to actually have so ...
