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Futterman/Parker/Williams: Authenticity
by Mark Corroto
I read chat room messages about free bassist William Parker last month with much amusement. You see, someone was making the argument that William Parker is faking it! The 'it' being his chops. The argument raged. He had fooled so many, including all those sessions with Charles Gayle, Matthew Shipp, Roscoe Mitchell, David Ware, and Cecil ...
Darren Barrett: First One Up
by Mark Corroto
Winner of the 1997 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, trumpeter Darren Barrett picks up where many of today’s young cats start, at the alter of Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, and Kenny Dorham. That ain’t all bad. Barrett, a member of Jackie McLean’s working band, churns from the gitgo on this recording. Produced by Donald Byrd, this ...
Jason Morn: Soundtrack To Human Motion
by Mark Corroto
Pianist Jason Moran’s debut as leader showcases a very mature 24 year-old talent. Early training in classical music and subsequent lessons from Andrew Hill and Muhal Richard Abrams led Moran to flirt with an inside/outside approach that borders on chamber jazz. Listening to his take on Maurice Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin,” you could be persuaded ...
Mel Torme: Lulu's Back In Town
by Mark Corroto
Mel’s hip. Period. There’s not a kitsch bone in his body. The television show Night Court did him the greatest disservice by focusing its boob-tube pop sensibilities upon him. Or perhaps, without the blessings of the tragically un-cool keepers of popular culture, many would never get the chance to hear the “Velvet Fog.” The latest word ...
Medeski Martin & Wood: Combustication Remix EP
by Mark Corroto
A primer on groove; first there was Electric Miles, then came The Grateful Dead. Sun Ra came before consciousness. In today’s world toss in some Phish and better yet (much better) I give you the trio of Medeski, Martin and Wood. These touring maniacs have a reputation as groove masters. Thanks to a contract with Blue ...
Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble: 7 In One
by Mark Corroto
Let me take you out there to a place where energy meets sound. Where the electric Miles treads. Where freedom means a discipline to music, like a Sun Ra meltdown. Where groove has no titles and John Coltrane can play a solo for two hours and you remain riveted in your seat. Dennis Warren lives here. ...
David Lahm: Jazz Takes On Joni Mitchell
by Mark Corroto
I somehow forgot just how intertwined pop star Joni Mitchell’s music has been with jazz. Maybe its because my sister bought the new Joni Mitchel records, and I only listened to them from the bedroom across the hall, that I didn’t memorize her album covers. But looking back on Mitchell’s work, up pops Bud Shank, Larry ...
Charlie Hunter/Leon Parker: Duo
by Mark Corroto
Memo to Bruce Lundvall, head honcho at Blue Note Records: whether by design or perhaps mistake, you have stumbled upon or rediscovered the ways of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. The simple duo recording by guitarist Charlie Hunter and percussionist Leon Parker is a throwback to the old days of BN records. Whoever decided on recording ...
Mongo Santamaria: Skin On Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology (1958-1995)
by Mark Corroto
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1922, Ramon Santamaria, lovingly known as Mongo was to Afro-Cuban music what Ted Williams was to baseball. Fans loved his playing and fellow musicians studied his bongo and conga technique. He traveled to New York in 1948 to find beboppers like Dizzy Gillespie incorporating Chano Pozo's Cuban folk music and bandleaders ...
Matthew Shipp: dna
by Mark Corroto
Matthew Shipp continues to document his progression as the anti-Marsalis. Eschewing swing for feeling, he leads his fans or is it his cult, down a much different path. His latest installment, recorded January of this year, is his thirty-second in the last eight years. At this pace, he'll replace David Murray as the album of the ...
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