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Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord: Liverevil
by Dave Wayne
Blessed with one of the most talented and exciting backing bands in jazz today, guitarist Jon Lundbom returns with a mammoth 2-CD live epic. Liverevil captures the band in performance on their hometown stomping grounds, Brooklyn Fire Proof, in front of a rightfully enthusiastic crowd. Easily able to sustain interest over the course of a double album, Lundbom and Big Five Chord mix up their program of open-ended original jazz compositions with a set of traditional Wiccan prayer songs and ...
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by Mark Corroto
Like Stiff Records from the 1970s and '80s punk era, Hot Cup Records always delivers music that is a sharp shot to the solar plexus. Home to the renegade jazz ensemble Mostly Other People Do The (MOPDTK), the avant-jazz country-music cover band Bryan And The Haggards, and guitarist Jon Lundbom's Big Five Chord, Hot Cup always comes out punching. Liverevil Lundbom's fifth Big Five Chord release follows the vinyl (and download) LP No New Tunes (Hot Cup, 2012) ...
Continue ReadingJon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: No New Tunes
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quinto episodio della saga Big Five Chord, No New Tunes conferma quanto di buono questo manipolo di guastatori musicali ha (dis)fatto finora nelle varie formazioni nelle quali si sono ritrovati e tutt'ora continuano a ritrovarsi. Mentre il titolo è un chiaro paradosso in perfetto band-style - le sei composizioni sono naturalmente nuove di zecca - lo potremmo parafrasare in No New CD, perché il lavoro è disponibile solamente in versione download sul sito del leader chitarrista o, a richiesta, in ...
Continue ReadingJon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers!
by Glenn Astarita
Since 2003, guitarist Jon Lundbom and his Big Five Chord unit have been crashing and slashing through the jazz-rock idiom, often lying on the perimeter of the avant-garde spectrum. With a support band comprised of solo artists and first-call session aces, the music is often hard-edged and chockfull of off-kilter innuendoes and ballsy soloing excursions. Lundbom's intense phrasings and mind-altering solo spots can exude a semblance of systematic paranoia or command the ensemble like a diesel-powered automaton, ...
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by Dave Wayne
Hot Cup Records has quickly established a reputation for documenting some of the most adventurous and quirky modern jazz around today. The label's flagship band, Mostly Other People Do The Killing (MOPDTK), is an incredibly energetic collective whose members seem to be popping up on all sorts of recordings these days. Half of MOPDTK, saxophonist Jon Irabagon and bassist Moppa Elliott, are also charter members of guitarist Jon Lundbom's Big Five Chord. Interestingly, the exact same personnel have also established ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Giunti al quarto album, Jon Lundbom e i suoi Big Five Chord si confermano una delle realtà più dirompenti emerse nella Grande Mela negli ultimi anni. Un gruppo di ragazzacci che hanno incrociato e incrociano tuttora le loro storie con denominazioni diverse (Bryan and the Haggards, Mostly Other People Do the Killing tra gli altri) e un etichetta (Hot Cup Records) che fa dell'anticonvenzionalità la sua ragion d'essere. Lundbom ha alle spalle studi di chitarra jazz e di composizione classica ...
Continue ReadingJon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Accomplish Jazz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Originario di Chicago, newyorchese d'adozione, il chitarrista Jon Lundbom è l'ennesimo fiore sbocciato nel giardino della nuova Brooklyn. Accomplish Jazz è la terza fatica per i suoi Big Five Chord, band completata dal sax tenore di Bryan Murray, dalla batteria di Danny Fischer e da due quarti del terror-bop combo Mostly Other People Do the Killing: quell'immenso talento che risponde al nome di Jon Irabagon (contraltista ascoltato di recente in The Observer e I Don't Hear Nothin' But the Blues) ...
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