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Odd: Libert

by AAJ Staff
September 28, 2005

The ODD Jazz Quartet, as this Canadian group is also known, is not particularly strange about the way it plies its open-ended approach to jazz styles from funk to bop to free, all cleverly merged on Liberté 54--which for some reason has only been released in Canada. The words “unusual" or “inventive" would better describe the music on this nine-track, fifty-minute album.

After a scintillating performance at last year's Montreal Jazz Festival, ODD won the festival's grand prize, which included ...