Jazz Articles about Ten Jinn

Ten Jinn: As On A Darkling Plain

by Glenn Astarita
May 1, 2000

With their second release titled, As On A Darkling Plain California based prog-band “Ten Jinn” surge onward while boasting strong group orientated characteristics that might parallel the modern-progressive idiom yet should also be commended for concentrating within the existing compositional framework. Hence, the soloing is implemented as a tool and not extended beyond the thrust of these rather interweaving series of works.

The theme piece titled, “As On A Darkling Plain” is a quite involved 40 minute suite featuring a ...