Jazz Articles about Free Radicals

Free Radicals: Outside The Comfort Zone

by Roger Farbey
July 24, 2017

In their publicity blurb, Houston-based Free Radicals describe themselves as “a horn-driven instrumental dance band with a commitment to peace and justice." In 1998, the Radicals' debut album The Rising Tide Sinks All warned against George W. Bush's Iraq war four years before it began. 21 years on, and with Outside The Comfort Zone, the band is sounding alarm bells to warn about the rise of rampant racism, xenophobia, nationalism and human rights abuses. The band certainly evinces ...