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Jazz Punks

Jazz Punks combines the best of East and West coast jazz, hittin' Bebop and Straight Ahead with a distinct and powerful edge

Jazz Punks: Smashups

By Jazz Punks

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing: Foleo; Clash Up; Creep Train; Mind Over Matter; Heavyfoot; Bo-So; I Can See Miles; Little Chickens; 12 Steps to Hell; Led Gillespie.

Smashups

By Jazz Punks

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing: Foleo; Clash Up; Creep Train; Mind Over Matter; Heavyfoot; Bo-So; I Can See Miles; Little Chickens; 12 Steps to Hell; Led Gillespie.

Jazz Punks: Jazz Punks: Smashups

by Glenn Astarita
May 9, 2012

A homogenous and playfully bastardized take on modern jazz, the Los Angeles-based Jazz Punks offers a rather chic, and youthful blend of jazz, punk-rock and rock on its debut outing. It's an undulating approach and at times, pleasantly schizophrenic by design. Here, electric guitarist Sal Polcino looms as the bridge between the rock and jazz element ...

Jazz Punks: Smashups

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
April 24, 2012

The conceit of the Los Angeleno Jazz Punks' debut is an appealing one: creative arrangements combining ("mashing up") really well-known jazz tunes ("Take The 'A' Train," “A Night In Tunisia," “Take Five") with really well known rock 'n' roll tunes ("Foxy Lady," “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?," “Misty Mountain Hop"). The jazz is mostly ...

Jazz Punks: Smashups

by Franz A. Matzner
April 16, 2012

Jazz PunksSmashupsSelf Produced2012As its name and debut album title suggest, the Los Angeles-based Jazz Punks seeks to “smash up" the jazz, punk and rock genres. But let's face it, jazz and punk hate each other, right? Jazz: all brain and no balls. Punk: all balls no brain. Nothing ...

Jazz Punks

By Sal Polcino

Label: Punx Records
Released: 2009