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Dog Out: Dog Out
by Matthew Wuethrich
Sex Mob’s Steven Bernstein has stated that he wants the group to revive the spirit of jazz, the spirit where people used to go out and ...listen to the music, go home and get laid.” Dog Out blares the same chord, like Sex Mob’s seedier, more bohemian (and Swedish) cousin. On their debut album these musicians pound, scream, howl, boom, slide and whisper in a husky, whiskey-preserved voice. To continue this scintillating high/low-art dialogue, think of Paul Newman in “Slap ...
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by John Kelman
Winner of the 2002 Jazz in Sweden Award and receiving a four-star Downbeat Magazine review for his quintet recording On Purpose , Fredrik Nordstrom is a young saxophonist/composer/bandleader who is clearly attracting some justified critical attention. His brief Canadian tour in the summer of 2003 proved him a fearlessly uncompromising performer with his feet planted firmly in post-Ornette territory but with a penchant for new music and even a little rock. His progressive vision, however, is all jazz and now, ...
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