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Chris Thile: Club G.R.O.S.S.

By Mike Jacobs
October 3, 2025
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The then-20-year-old mandolinist and future MacArthur Genius Award winner takes a thrilling and decisive jazz romp with saxophonist Jeff Coffin and bassist Byron House that shows his genius to know no stylistic bounds. From the album Not All Who Wander Are Lost (Sugar Hill, 2001).

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