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The Waz: Organigalactic
by Jim Santella
With a live performance at The Mohawk Place in BeauFleu, New York, this exciting band follows last year’s debut with more fun. Some of it is dance music; some of it simply pure energy. In places, the band amuses with creative hijinks. Sharing a free spirit and improvised action with the jazz world, this drummer-led band prefers enthusiastic rock and hard-core funk as its focus. Using tapes with altered speed & vocal pitch, electronic sound distortion, shouting, spoken word; as ...
read moreDavid Wasik: The WAZ - Melodic Hypnotic
by Jim Santella
Miles Davis spawned generations of “hip" artists after 1970 when he championed the fusion of jazz with rock music. Instruments and techniques from the world of hard rock combined with the trumpeter’s unmistakable force and produced an updated product. It was one that would attract a growing audience. David Wasik’s quartet is rooted in jazz; however, the end result is equal parts jazz, rock and rap/poetry. Walking the fine line between talking and rapping, Wasik speaks in rhythmic patterns to ...
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