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Ape Club: Ape Club

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 8, 2013

Ape Club is a new Norwegian quartet that has been operating since 2009 and plays jazz at the crossroads of be-bop and early free jazz of the late fifties and early sixties. Its debut album blends inspirations of such great composers as Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, spiced with modern pop song structures, folksy melodies and modern manners of improvisations. The quartet leader, bassist Julius Lind, wrapped the band tunes within catchy, melodic and energetic ...