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Underground Jazz Trio: Radio Free Europa

by Glenn Astarita
June 29, 2007

Improvising Irish guitarist Mark O' Leary's spiraling jazz presence continues with the Underground Jazz Trio, which is a free-form endeavor that rings like a basement jam session. Sparked by O'Leary's medium-toned electric guitar phrasings, the band investigates ethereal dreamscapes and bustling passages, partly consummated by the guitarist's spacey volume control permutations. Recorded in Chicago with Tortoise drummer John Herndon and Isotope 217 bassist Matt Lux, the music iterated on Radio Free Europa is all about synergistic improvisation and wavering rhythmic ...