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Josh Moshier / Mike Lebrun: Joy Not Jaded

by Dan McClenaghan
November 17, 2009

The Millennials are here.

Keyboardist Josh Moshier and saxophonist Michael Lebrun, a pair of Chicago-based jazz artists born in the 1980s, delve deeply into the jazz world with Joy Not Jaded. On this fine, high-energy set, the pair and their band craft a modern-leaning sound that remains true to the post-bop tradition.

The set of all original material--five tunes from Moshier's pen, six from Lebrun's--opens with Moshier's “King's Road," inspired by night drives on Los Angeles freeways (night being the ...