Jazz Articles about Buffalo Jazz Octet

Buffalo Jazz Octet: PausaLive

by Patrick Keyes
April 27, 2017

The Buffalo Jazz Octet, a group of veteran musicians culled from the strong jazz community in Buffalo, NY, offers a boldly realized collective voice that sings of a wide-open future on PausaLive. PausaLive both reinforces and obliterates notions of jazz as a convenient label. The writing is beguiling, the musicians contribute top-notch inside and outside playing amid an assertive group mindset, and the listener is pulled into an aural adventure of striking dynamic variances. This is an extremely ...