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Nature Work: Nature Work

Read "Nature Work" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 13, 2019

Jason Stein and Greg Ward are two stalwart Chicago musicians who continually stretch boundaries and search for new experiences. Stein, a devotee of the bass clarinet, maintains two trios, Hearts & Minds (with Paul Giallorenzo and Chad Taylor) and Locksmith Isador (with Jason Roebke and Mike Pride), plus his quartet with Joshua Abrams, Keefe Jackson, and ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

John Dikeman And The Origin Of The Species

by Mark Corroto
June 28, 2019

If we were to go searching for saxophonist John Dikeman's spirit animal, we might have to bypass beast for sapien. Let's just say his spirit animal is the father of punk, Iggy Pop. Like early music by The Stooges, Dikeman's sound makes reference to the music of both Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders. It's a shame ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mike Reed's Flesh & Bone Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam

by BIMHUIS
November 26, 2018

Mike Reed's compositions for Flesh & Bone are both deeply personal and brimming with hope. They represent his expressions of feeling about social unrest, racism and resurgent nationalism. On his eponymous album, the Chicago-based musician recollects harrowing memories of a confrontation with far-right protesters on a train journey with his band through Eastern Europe. For this ...

Article: Album Review

Mike Reed: Flesh & Bone

Read "Flesh & Bone" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
February 5, 2018

Pur essendo basata su un'esperienza drammatica del 2009, che vide il quartetto di Mike Reed a problematico e pericoloso contatto con una manifestazione neonazista nella Repubblica Ceca, la musica contenuta in questo Flesh & Bone mantiene le caratteristiche di esuberanza ottimista ed estroversione che distinguono la produzione del batterista, in primo luogo quella pluriennale di People, ...

Album

Flesh & Bone

By Mike Reed

Label: 482 Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Voyagers; First Reading: SF Sky; Conversation Music; A Separatist Party; The Magic Drum; My Imaginary Friend (Tyshawn Sorey); I Want to Be Small: for Archibald Motley; Second Reading: Me Day; Watching the Boats; Call of Tomorrow (My Life Up Until the Present); Scenes From the Next Life.

Article: Year in Review

Mark Corroto's Best Releases of 2017

by Mark Corroto
December 14, 2017

And what a year it was. With all hurricanes, raging fires, and end-of-the-world politics, we were fortunate to have the magical salve that is music. Complied here are my favorite releases of this past year. I tried to pare down a long list of 50 to 10, but it was impossible. The music you see below ...

Article: Year in Review

Troy Collins' Best Releases of 2017

by Troy Collins
December 7, 2017

Considering the quantity of recordings released in a year's time, attempting to compile a comprehensive end of the year list mentioning every first-rate session would be difficult at best. The ten titles listed below represent a fertile cross-section of some of the most compelling modern jazz heard in 2017. William Parker Quartets

Article: Interview

Tomas Fujiwara: The More the Better

by Troy Dostert
November 6, 2017

Drummer Tomas Fujiwara is a man on a mission. With recent and upcoming projects too many to list, he's one of the most widely recorded and in-demand drummers in contemporary creative jazz. Somehow he found the time to talk with All About Jazz right after a sound check in preparation for his Triple Double sextet's headlining ...

Article: Live Review

October Revolution in Jazz & Contemporary Music 2017

by Mark Corroto
October 24, 2017

October Revolution In Jazz & Contemporary Music FringeArts Philadelphia, PA October 5-8, 2017 The main venue for The October Revolution in Jazz & Contemporary Music was FringeArts, a renovated historic pumping station for Philadelphia's fire department located in the shadow of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. It seats 240 ...

Article: Album Review

Dan Phillips Quartet: Converging Tributaries

Read "Converging Tributaries" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 5, 2017

Sorry New York, but Chicago jazz hits harder. And maybe it always has, with players like Gene Ammons, Von Freeman, Fred Anderson and today's stars, Dave Rempis, Frank Rosaly, Hamid Drake, and Fred Lonberg-Holm, to name just a few musicians. Maybe it is the winters, or is it the searing heat of summer that mutates the ...