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Tour de Flux

Label: Accurate Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Flux; Chapeau; Good and Plenty; Barber's Hint; Boodha; Clip; Nimbus; The Phoenicians.

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The Jazz Mandolin Project: Tour de Flux

Read "Tour de Flux" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Mandolin, yes, but you won't find any foggy mountain bluegrass here. When these folks took the name the Jazz Mandolin Project, they could have been inspired by the Truth in Advertising Commission. Actually, without knowing that Jamie Masefield is wielding a mandolin (as well as a “tenor banjo"), a casual listener might figure that this is ...

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The Jazz Mandolin Project: Tour de Flux

Read "Tour de Flux" reviewed by Douglas Payne


This Burlington, Vermont trio sounds more like an accomplished guitar trio than the gimmick their name might suggest. Maybe that's what makes Tour de Flux, the group's second disc in their four-year history, an absolute knock-out.Mandolin and banjo pyro-technician Jamie Masefield more or less leads the band. He's a methodic, even erudite player that ...

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Jazz Mandolin Project: Tour De Flux

Read "Tour De Flux" reviewed by Ed Kopp


“The future belongs to musicians willing to explore timbre in terms of new combinations of instruments that are not standard." So said jazz saxophonist and owner of Postcard Records Ralph Simon in a December 1997 JazzTimes article about the future of jazz.If Simon is right -- and I believe he is -- the future ...

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Jazz Mandolin Project: Tour De Flux

Read "Tour De Flux" reviewed by AAJ Staff


The name attracts attention; outside of Dave Grisman, “mandolin jazz” is a contradiction of terms. This record, the Project’s second, comes after an impromptu tour with a new lineup, including the drummer from Phish. The novelty of the mandolin is soon forgotten; you remember the energy, the mad strumming, the restless exploration. This is many things, ...


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