Jazz Articles about Jon Lundbom

Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Accomplish Jazz

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 3, 2010

There is a refreshing, albeit immediate, sense of naïveté about the music of guitarist Jon Lundbom. As the music progresses, however, it becomes evident that Lundbom wears this almost childlike wonder as a rather thin mask, belying a graceful sophistication that marks an apparent determination to go beyond the mere skin of sound. This is eminently clear on Accomplish Jazz, an album with a quirky title that appears to thumb its nose at those who put labels such as “mainstream," ...

Jon Lundbom: Big Five Chord

by Mark Sabbatini
November 6, 2004

Guitarist Jon Lundbom achieves his goal of breaking a few molds in a promising debut album, if not always as intended. Big Five Chord is a modern free jazz outing whose attempts to sound unconventional often are all-too-conventional--and vice versa. It's decent overall, but it may not propel the New York club veteran onto the national scene.

Lest anyone (i.e. Lundbom) call this review unclear on the concept, his web site promotes this 2004 release as “a jazz ...