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Chris Corsano/Sylvie Courvoisier/Nate Wooley: Salt Task

by Mark Corroto
I imagine the tracks for the inaugural meeting between these improvising musicians are presented to us in the order they were recorded. I say that because the music gives the impression it is undergoing the process of refinement as the recording progresses. Perhaps, as each of the individual tracks progresses. But, like the musicians, ...
Dragonfly Breath III: Live at the Stone: Megaloprepus Caerulatus

by Mark Corroto
Today's zen koan: why does a watched pot never boil? The answer to that question is found in the music of Dragonfly Breath III: because it is always boiling. The roil we speak of comes from the quartet of saxophonist Paul Flaherty, trombonist Steve Swell, violinist C. Spencer Yeh, and drummer Weasel Walter. The ...
Mette Rasmussen/Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano: Star-Spangled Voltage

by Mark Corroto
I prefer the moniker 'fire music' over the descriptor 'free jazz.' It does a better job illustrating what improvising musicians achieve when they venture into the driving rhythms and forward momentum of this music. Good free jazz sounds like a bonfire. Great free jazz sounds, and feels like a barely contained wildfire. This first meeting between ...
Mette Rasmussen/Chris Corsano: All The Ghosts At Once

by Mark Corroto
Today's hypothesis states that all free jazz improvisation demands the musicians maintain the music's vigor like a juggler, to all appearances, keeping all the balls in the air at once. Proof of this theory is the opening piece Train Track" from alto saxophonist Mette Rasmussen and drummer Chris Corsano's release All The Ghosts At Once. The ...
Dialoghi ai confini del suono

by Enrico Bettinello
Un paio di duetti avventurosi pubblicati dalla Relative Pitch Records. Questione di irriducibilità. Ai generi, alle mode, alla convenienza (quale essa sia). Paul Flaherty, Randall Colbourne Ironic Havoc Relative Pitch Records (2013) * * * ½ Il primo. Paul Flaherty e ...
Matthew Shipp: Shipp Shape

by Chris Rich
Pianist Matthew Shipp is very keenly attuned to the details and nuances of what has to be the most forlorn and anemic environment imaginable for anything a sensible person would call business. Think of it as the sort of business ecosystem that resembles the least habitable places on earth, say a fumarole at the bottom of ...