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Juan Vinuesa Jazz Quartet: Blue Shots From Chicago
by Mark Corroto
Chicago, a city of big shoulders, continues to present proof of poet Carl Sandburg's words from the poem of the same name... “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning." Why is this? Because Chicago in 2020 remains the same as evoked in ...
Rez Abbasi: OASIS
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Rez Abbasi and harpist Isabelle Olivier's OASIS (an acronym for Olivier Abbasi Sound In Sound) is embodiment of fusion. Not the variety you may recognize as jazz-rock fusion, more like fusion cooking, for example Korean-Mexican or sushi-pizza. Okay, not sushi-pizza, but you get the idea. Olivier and Abbasi are pulling together jazz, Indian-Pakistani, and European ...
Franz Koglmann Septet: Fruits Of Solitude
by Mark Corroto
Franz Koglmann must be a connoisseur of vinification, i.e. winemaking, because his Fruits Of Solitude has the feel of a master vintner at work. Specifically, wine blends like Super Tuscans or Côtes du Rhônes mark his amalgam of European chamber music and American jazz. Koglmann is a true polymath in that he hears all and rejects ...
John Coltrane Quartet: Impressions: Graz 1962
by Mark Corroto
This live concert is a welcome excuse to go to your happy place. Sixty years after John Coltrane's quartet toured Europe, this radio broadcast with its excellent audio fidelity opens like a capsule. Both a time capsule and a seed capsule, one that continues to pollinate today's music. The year was 1962 and Coltrane ...
Ivar Grydeland & Henry Kaiser: Into The Arctic Dreamtime
by Mark Corroto
Homeostasis is defined as a steady state of internal conditions, i.e. your comfort zone. A body prefers to maintain a temperature of 98.6 Celsius and a pH reading of 7. But homeostasis also describes a resistance to change. That is why we heat our houses in winter and cool them in summer, to live within our ...
Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs. 10
by Mark Corroto
Imagine Tim Berne as the lead in the 1980's' American television series The A-Team, declaring: “I love it when a plan comes together!" He must return to that catchphrase every time his ensemble Snakeoil finishes a recording. After four outings on Manfred Eicher's ECM Records, the previous being Incidentals (2017), he moves his A-Team to Intakt ...
Ross Hammond - Oliver Lake - Mike Pride: Our Place On The Wheel
by Mark Corroto
Let's make the blues great again. Like a certain political slogan from the 2016 election, the blues, like America, has always been great. Guitarist Ross Hammond's blues are also analogous to the American experience, with his diverse and heterogeneous perspective. His trio recording Our Place On The Wheel reflects this variegated approach. The 'great' part is ...
Biagio Coppa: Slam Dunk Project
by Mark Corroto
Playing the guessing game while listening to Slam Dunk Project by Biagio Coppa's trio will lead you to America and the New World. Which, of course, is the Old World when we are talking about jazz. Zooming in a bit closer, and we hit the East Coast before stopping in the Midwest. Coppa's compositions and the ...
Kuzu: Purple Dark Opal
by Mark Corroto
Thank your lucky stars that Kuzu's previous disc Hiljaisuus (Aerophonic/Astral Spirits, 2019) was not a one-off meeting. That recording, their first concert together in 2017, inspired the trio to tour and explore their brand of free jazz. Purple Dark Opal, recorded live in Milwaukee in October 2018, found the trio in the midst of an extended ...
Matthew Shipp / Nate Wooley: What If?
by Mark Corroto
Sixty years after Miles Davis recorded “So What" during his Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959) sessions, the duo of pianist Matthew Shipp and trumpeter Nate Wooley ask the question What If?, as in, “What if, in the 21st century, all music was free?" Free as in free range, without prejudgement, unbiased and without partisanship. ...
