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Soundscape Orchestra: Nexus
by Jakob Baekgaard
The big city is a place of wonder and estrangement. It has its own pulse and sound. Individuals disappear into crowds, and yet the city is also the scene of individual freedom, a potential theatre of endless roles and masks which are carried with conviction as people move through a technological landscape that seems to change all the time. The complex identity of the city is captured musically on Nexus, the debut from the Swedish six-piece ensemble Soundscape ...
read moreBeat Funktion: Green Man
by Jim Olin
Swedish group Beat Funktion could be described as a band, but they strike me as something even deeper than that: a musical collective with an extremely broad approach and a really keen ear for making complex arrangements sound accessible and catchy. The songs on Green Man blur the lines between funk, blues, jazz, and fusion, going for a really unique sound. Think Miles Davis jamming with Herbie Hancock! The title track itself is a perfect example to get ...
read moreStockholm Jazz Orchestra: Today
by Jack Bowers
Before proceeding, three cheers and a hearty round of applause are in order, as Today, the fifteenth album recorded by the impressive Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, helps mark the thirtieth anniversary of one of Scandinavia's most celebrated big bands. This truly is an ensemble with no discernible weaknesses: sharp soloists in almost every chair, a remarkable adeptness to blend as a unit, and, above all, an unequivocal commitment to the music, much of which has been written and / or arranged ...
read moreBeat Funktion: Olympus
by Geannine Reid
The seventies brought many things: bell-bottoms, Lee Majors, Farrah Fawcett, Disco, Nixon and Carter, The Godfather, the Ramones; Billie Jean King and Phyllis Schlafly to NOW and the ERA; from the Energy Crisis to Roe v. Wade. The Seventies is an incisively provocative and commonly misunderstood era. Is it an eminently forgettable period in our American culture? Well, that is for another article, but one positive note that has grown from that time period is that danceable beat that finds ...
read moreDaniel Lantz Trio: Plays Bond
by Dan Bilawsky
James Bond has a taste for the finer things in life; Aston Martin automobiles, Tom Ford suits, Omega Seamaster timepieces and mysteriously beautiful company from the fairer sex are just a few things that Bond bonds with these days, but jazz, sadly, doesn't make the list. While Monty Norman's famed “James Bond Theme" certainly paints a swinging picture of the world's favorite MI6 agent, Bond's connection to this music has fizzled out over time. Bond themes over the years have ...
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