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John Randall Pelosi: Plus Ultra
by Mark Corroto
I know people who have never heard a single song by a given musical artist, but love or hate them just the same. Read a few People Magazine articles, maybe skim a review in the Sunday New York Times and oops now you have an opinion about someone’s music. I do the same with movies, catch ...
Jeff Kaiser/Woody Aplanalp: Asphalt Buddhas
by Mark Corroto
Anyone who shares their house with a baby or a puppy understands noise and the tiptoe qualities of silence. Sounds that normally pass beneath our radar screens are picked up, even amplified when one is trying not to wake the baby/puppies. Like the cartoon dogs trying to hold a sneeze ‘til they are miles away from ...
Lee Konitz/Ted Brown: Dig-It
by Mark Corroto
Lee Konitz and Ted Brown have lived many lives since they played together as students and sidemen of pianist Lennie Tristano more than fifty years ago. Konitz started with Claude Thornhill’s Orchestra before working with Gil Evans and Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool Nonet. His familiar alto saxophone was featured in what many say was ...
Beth Custer: In The Broken Fields Where I Lie
by Mark Corroto
Beth Custer is a musical chameleon. The San Francisco composer changes from musical genre to musical genre with effortless grace and unlike her colleagues from the New York Downtown Scene, she does it without pretension. Just glance at the list of musicians on this release to get a feel for its grand scale. But Beth Custer ...
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 ...
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