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The Big Four Quintet: Sanctified

Read "Sanctified" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


There are few acts that sound like a grab bag of genres while having its own sound, but this is true of The Big Four Quintet (now abbreviated as TB4Q). The band's hallmark has become a curious eclecticism, bringing in styles as diverse as rock n' roll, blues, New Orleans jazz, funk, lounge, swing and world music, and cooking it all up into one steaming stew.

In that sense, the title of TB4Q's second album is highly ironic, because if ...

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The Big Four: The Congregation Sessions

Read "The Congregation Sessions" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


The idea of postmodernism has become associated with the death of history, pastiche, playfulness and the breaking down of genres as we know them. To characterize The Big Four as a postmodern R&B band would be no exaggeration.

Here is a group with five members that name themselves The Big Four and sports a musician by the name of Dr. Basie, a pianist, who has a PhD in postmodern psychiatry but decided, as stated in the liner notes: “to concentrate ...

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The Congregation...

Tub-Thumper Records
2009

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Sanctified

Tub-Thumper Records
2009

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