Corey Wilkes

[sal]

Anyone familiar with this trumpet player? I know that he's realtively new on the scene. I've seen the guy perform twice, both times with a Roscoe Mitchell-led band. While he seems to have potential, it irritates me how he relies on the exact same licks, rapid fingering, and unusual sounds OVER and OVER again. He was playing the exact same stuff last night that he played when he was with the Roscoe Mitchell Octet at the Chicago jazz fest this past summer! But then again, he does always solo immediately after Roscoe Mitchell, which is a hard task to accomplish. After getting your mind completely fuckin' blown by a Roscoe Mitchell excursion, its kind of hard for anything else to sound good.

Edited March 26, 2004 by sal

[Pete C]

He's going to be performing with the Art Ensemble in NY.

[Chuck Nessa]

After hearing him 3 times, I agree with Sal. I hope I'm wrong. I hope he works with the AEC.

[Larry Kart]

Agree with Sal and Chuck. Have had two encounters with Wilkes (and probably a third that was so much like the second that I don't recall it separately). The first, with Roscoe and a large ensemble on the Chi. Jazz Fest, was kind of impressive at first in terms of power and apparent (and in context appropriate) frenzy. The second was with Roscoe and Wilkes as the only horns in a quintet; here Wilkes' shtick was the same as before and now seemed like a circus act.