Corpulent

Sun-Mi Hong, Christine Correa, Muriel Grossmann & Manuel Hermia

by Maurice Hogue
January 2, 2023

This episode is filled with new interesting new releases, highlighted by ex-pat South Korean drummer Sun-Mi Hong who's settled nicely into the Amsterdam scene, vocalist Christine Correa's take on the seminal music of Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach, saxophonist Muriel Grossmann's spiritual and spirited approach, and Belgian saxophonist Manuel Hermia with his latest band, Freetet. Gebhard ...

Corpulent: Wolfwalk

by Ollie Bivens
January 26, 2006

Although jazz comprises no more than 4% of CD sales nationally, there exists a cornucopia of good to excellent jazz musicians--female vocalists, pianists, and saxophonists especially. You can put 44-year-old Baltimore native Gary Thomas in the “excellent" column. Having played with trumpeters Miles Davis and Wallace Roney, Thomas is currently the Director of Jazz Studies at ...

Wolfwalk

By Corpulent

Label: Umlaut Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Gryphus Medley; Slow Bluuesss; Who

Corpulent: Wolfwalk

by Mark Corroto
November 16, 2005

Nobody asks you to take part in a revolution or overturn the status quo. I guess you just believe things should be different (maybe better?) and you jump in. Sometimes to your detriment, sometimes to glory. I'm not talking about the world trade talks, I speak of jazz revolutions, from swing to bebop, the “new thing," ...