Mette Rasmussen/Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano

Mette Rasmussen/Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano: Star-Spangled Voltage

by Mark Corroto
May 5, 2016

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 saxophonists Paul Flaherty and Mette Rasmussen can be classified as a conflagration with drummer Chris Corsano as the accelerant. Corsano brought together ...