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Matthew Shipp Trio: Root Of Things
by Mark Corroto
A mathematical equation can chart and explain everything in life, from the arc of a thrown baseball to the dynamical systems of chaos. The scientific study of deterministic chaos is a bit of an oxymoron, in that the mathematicians suggest everything can be graphed and explained by calculations. The theory being, the deeper you delve into ...
John Lurie's Art For Art's Sake
by Mark Corroto
The release of The Invention Of Animals (Amulet, 2014) finds the return of saxophonist and visual artist John Lurie to the musical spotlight he left nearly twenty years ago. First recognized in the late 1970s for his Downtown band The Lounge Lizards, a band that introduced many listeners to artists such as Marc Ribot, Michael Blake, ...
Made To Break: Cherchez La Femme
by Mark Corroto
Conceived in 2011, the electric/acoustic ensemble Made To Break has had the opportunity to tour and evolve as an improvising unit. The result, their third disc recorded in 2013, Cherchez La Femme reveals a truly engaged band. That statement wouldn't be unexpected if we were talking about a rock group or a jazz band for that ...
Skordatura PunkJazz Ensemble: How To Chase A Minute In One Second
by Mark Corroto
"What's in a name?" Juliet asked in that play by William Shakespeare, “that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." True. But a band's name does provide a clue to its music. The Belgian band Skordatura PunkJazz Ensemble chose an amalgamation of jazz, cross tuning, and punk as its sobriquet. ...
Fareed Haque: Trance Hypothesis
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Fareed Haque answers the musical question, what if Jimmy Smith's chicken shack served tandoori chicken? His world music DNA--son of a Pakistani father and Chilean mother grants him the authority to make blender drinks of all the musics that are stockpiled in his brain. A master of music in jazz, classical, and the ...
Ran Blake: Plays Solo Piano
by Mark Corroto
ESP Disk's 50th anniversary reissue series continues to unearth valuable documents from the history of cutting edge music. Back in the 1960s, when jazz was becoming marginalized as popular music and disenfranchised by the rise of rock-and-roll, ESP chose to eliminate musical classifications that pigeonholed creative music. The label released music by Albert Ayler and Gato ...
John Russell / Ståle Liavik Solberg: No Step
by Mark Corroto
Like a pair of jugglers, free improvising musicians John Russell and Ståle Liavik Solberg excel at keeping multiple objects in the air and in constant motion. No Step is a brief recording from May 2013, and although clocking in at just 33-minutes, the session leaves the impression these two connect with each other at multiple junctures. ...
Akira Sakata & Giovanni Di Domenico: Iruman
by Mark Corroto
Surprisingly, Iruman is saxophonist Akira Sakata's first piano duo recording in his forty-plus year career. The question this disc raises is not why did it take him so long to record in this format, but could another duo performance eclipse this one? Sakata has been flag bearer of the Japanese free jazz movement since ...
Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen: Farvefisen Blomstrer
by Mark Corroto
The band Sweet Banditry asks the musical question, “if a post-punk jazz band sings in Danish, does the sound still scare you?" The answer is definitely, yes! Saxophonist Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen of The Slow Food Cook Book, Louie's Spaced-Out Ensemble, and the duos Herbert Eckardt with percussionist Luca Marin and Seiki with drummer Andreas Pichler, ...
Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet: Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet
by Mark Corroto
While the tagline 'Miles Smiles' is more befitting Miles Davis' second great quintet, it is an apt reference to this recording by the Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet (IAHRQ), who draw not so much from the Columbia recordings by Miles Davis E.S.P> (1965), Sorcerer (1967), or Nefertiti (1968) but from the great electricity of Live-Evil (1971) ...
