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Jon Davis: Moving Right Along
by Mark Corroto
Every jazz generation has its own Tommy Flanagan, an unheralded player that finally steps into the spotlight and everyone wonders how he has been hiding in plain sight all these years. With Moving Right Along, a follow up to One Up Front (Posi-Tone, 2013) pianist Jon Davis takes center stage with an assured sense of swing ...
New Vocabulary: New Vocabulary
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Ornette Coleman has such an original voice that his horn would be recognizable if he sat in with a Japanese noise band. Like late-Miles Davis appearances, the pleasure is hearing his distinctive blues-drenched sound, the plaintive cry of his alto saxophone. He last surfaced, on a recording that is, with Sonny Rollins' Road Shows, Vol. ...
Timothy Daisy: October Music (Vol. 1) 7 Compositions For Duet
by Mark Corroto
In 2001 drummer Tim Daisy replaced Tim Mulvenna in Vandermark 5. From that instant, his career has evolved first as a sideman to composer/saxophonist Ken Vandermark in V5, Bridge 61, Resonance Ensemble, The Frame Quartet, and more recently in Audio One and Made To Break. Next he distinguished himself with fellow Chicago musicians in Dave Rempis' ...
Chad Eby Quartet: The Sweet Shel Suite
by Mark Corroto
Reading poet Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree once again as an adult, it is improbable that one would take away the same message as you did reading the book as a child. The boy in the story grows up playing in the branches of the tree and eating its fruit, eventually cutting the trunk for wood. ...
Peter Brotzmann/John Edwards/Steve Noble: Soulfood Available
by Mark Corroto
Listeners often ask where to begin listening to the music of Peter Brotzmann. Recording for nearly 50 years (yes, five-0), he has amassed a discography that totals nearly 300 recordings. Do you start back in the Machine Gun days and his work with FMP, fast forward to Material and Last Exit or his grand projects, the ...
Kid Millions & Jim Sauter: Fountain
by Mark Corroto
Fountain, the duo by Jim Sauter and Kid Millions, could easily be mistaken for the work of noise artist Merzbow and Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi, Japanese guitarist Keiji Haino and Rashied Ali, or guitarist Ed Ricart and Chicago drummer Tim Daisy. Sauter of the infamous free jazz noise band Borbetomagus creates sound often mistaken for guitar ...
Luís Lopes Lisbon Berlin Trio: The Line
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Luís Lopes posted the following quote on his Facebook page, “art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." With that as his mission statement, the question arises: can one listen to his music with a sympathetic ear? Or more importantly, is discomfort the motivation and ultimately the goal? Lopes' ...
Thomas Marriott: Urban Folklore
by Mark Corroto
Nothing has hit quite as hard as recent music from the trio of pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis and Drummer Donald Edwards. The three musicians seek out (or probably are sought by) collaborators of equal weight and energy. It is not surprising that this recording of nine compositions, led by trumpeter and Seattle native Thomas ...
Paul Rogers/Robin Fincker/Fabien Duscombs: Whahay
by Mark Corroto
Is playing with a European free jazz sensibility antithetical to the music of Charles Mingus? Absolutely. Does renowned bassist Paul Rogers try his hand at it with his new trio Whahay? Yes. Do they triumph? Without question, yes. Rogers, a veteran of the London scene and bands of Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall, and Elton ...
Jason Yeager: Affirmation
by Mark Corroto
No sophomore slump for pianist Jason Yeager. His trio disc Affirmation actually has the feel of a mature artist's fourth, fifth, and sixth recording. Maybe that is because his trio is a true working unit with bassist Danny Weller and drummer Matt Rousseau or possibly it's his ability to integrate varying musical concepts without sounding imitative. ...
