Chris Corsano

The Healing

By Rodrigo Amado

Label: European Echoes
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Healing Day; The Cry; Griot; Release Is In The Mind.

The Glass Changes Shape

By John Butcher

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Necessary Temperament; Territorial Songbirds; Terminal Buzz; Wrinkled Shuffle; Hidden Bell; Disaster Laugh; Gentle Wiring; Homer's Lizard; Mid-Signal.

Rodrigo Amado / Chris Corsano: The Healing

by Troy Dostert
August 15, 2025

Among recent partnerships in free improvisation, the saxophone/drum tandem of Rodrigo Amado and Chris Corsano has been one of the most dynamic and incendiary. They have joined forces in one form or another since the early 2010s; the recording which first put them on the map was their effort with Joe McPhee and Kent Kessler, the ...

John Butcher / Florian Stoffner / Chris Corsano: The Glass Changes Shape

by John Sharpe
March 17, 2025

British saxophonist John Butcher cultivates a network of like-minded collaborators around the world, with whom he seeks to connect on an occasional to regular basis. Although only formed in May 2022, the trio with American drummer Chris Corsano and Swiss guitarist Florian Stoffner must be among the most potent combinations. Affirmation comes from the nine tracks ...

Brilliant Corners 2025: Days 5-8

by Ian Patterson
March 16, 2025

Brilliant Corners 2025 Black Box/Various Venues Belfast, N. IrelandFebruary 28-March 8, 2025 If the first four days of Brilliant Corners 2025 leaned towards long-form contemporary composition and free improvisation, the music of the last four days had a more spiritual tone, and a more heavily African-accented character. Many would say that ...

David Maranha / Rodrigo Amado: Wrecks

by Mark Corroto
December 5, 2024

There was a children's television show that aired every Saturday morning in the 1960s where the host faced the camera while holding up a looking glass. He would say something to this effect: “Hello friends, today I see Billy, Allison, Teddy, etc." Those watching thrilled to hear their name or the name of a sibling or ...

Florian Stoffner, John Butcher, Chris Corsano: Braids

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 29, 2024

Una free impro abbastanza classica (tutto pu�� diventare un classico, anche l'irriverenza), piuttosto ben calibrata e mai sopra le righe, �� quanto ci giunge da questi cinquanta minuti scarsi di musica certamente non accomodante (ma del resto, come si sar�� capito, nemmeno mai urtante), incisi nel maggio 2022 in quel di Bienna, citt�� svizzera sul lago ...

Rodrigo Amado The Bridge: Beyond The Margins

by John Sharpe
January 1, 2024

The Bridge may be one of the most potent all round units assembled by Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado. That is saying something considering his previous alliances with collaborators as varied as multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, trumpeter Peter Evans, trombonist Jeb Bishop and drummer Chris Corsano. This time out his partners read like an extract from an ...

Braids

By Florian Stoffner

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023
Track listing: Soft Geometry; The Zoo Is Next Door; Little Secrets Taken To Our Graves; Gneis; Charlatans Selling Miracles; Smaller Infinities; Elegant Frost.