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Paragon

Peter Ehwald - saxophones; Arthur Lea - piano, rhodes; Matthias Nowak - bass; Jon Scott - drums. The melody is carried from one to another. Time keeping is shared. Ideas are all over the place. It’s a conversation that goes round in circles because there’s always an angle you haven’t heard yet. Paragon are a travelling band. They tour countries and influences alike, from Brooklyn ballads to Venezuelan merengue to Bollywood bhangra. Imagine the classic Jazz quartet going back to the 1970s after backpacking in Eastern Europe and jamming with 21st century Balkan folk bands. Send them off to see a Glenn Gould recital before stopping off for afternoon tea with Pannonica de Koenigswarter in NYC and you might hear something of what goes on in the back of the Paragon tour bus. It’s the sound of a journey taking place

Red Hill

There is a sense of mystery, majesty and daring surrounding this remarkably deep studio session, the first of its kind for the adventurous renegade label RareNoiseRecords. Each piece resounds with such compelling, conversational, in-the-moment playing that it sets a new standard in collective improvisation. “I believe it raises the bar for what improvised music can achieve on record,” says pianist Jamie Saft of Red Hill, the group's mesmerizing debut on the RareNoise label. Fueled by the urgent high note blasts and expressive muted trumpet work of avant-garde icon Wadada Leo Smith and underscored by an uncanny group-think of RareNoise stalwarts Jamie Saft (Metallic Taste of Blood, Slobber Pup, Plymouth, The New Standard) on keyboards, Joe Morris (Plymouth, Slobber Pup, One) on acoustic bass and Balazs Pandi (Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood, Slobber, Pup, One) on drums, Red Hill is a kind of clarion call for the new avant-garde. Pandi's sensitive, highly interactive brushwork and coloristic cymbals underscore Smith's lyrical muted trumpet playing on the sparse opener, “Gneiss.” And yet, when that piece builds to a turbulent crescendo near the end, the drummer is right there to fuel the frantic proceedings. With mallets, Pandi engages in a conversational duet with Smith at the outset to “Janus Face,” a piece that evolves from slow, open rubato statements to dense explosions of tumultuous free jazz sparked by Saft's Cecil Taylor- esque attack on the piano

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Klaxon Mutant Allstars

Active since: January 1

The Klaxon Mutant Allstars are a fellowship of San Francisco Bay Area jazz musicians whose music lives between the worlds of jazz, electronica, indie rock and hip-hop. This year they are celebrating the release of their debut album, Robot Invasion. Their music is the product of a new generation of eclectic-minded jazz musicians living in the Bay Area’s technology-obsessed, genre-twisting, multi-cultural mix. With inspiration drawn from 1980s hip hop, to underdog baseball heroes, to the writings of David Sedaris, California politics, to covering indie rock bands like Deerhoof, the Klaxons have created an album that, like the Bay Area, is multi-pronged in its influences, vital in its relevance, and boldly points to the future

Hambone Relay

“Creating your own lane in the music industry isn’t an easy feat, but Philly based jazz/ funk band Hambone Relay have already solidified themselves as one of the grooviest groups on the East Coast.” (James G. - Vain Culture) With elements of blues, jazz, funk and rock & roll, Hambone Relay redefines the modern organ trio with their unique brand of improvisational jam music. Since their founding in 2012, the band has played between 75-100 shows a year touring up and down the East Coast and have shared the stage with such great bands as Melvin Seals and JGB, Zak Deputy, Cris Jacobs Band, The James Hunter 6 and New Orleans legends Rebirth Brass Band. The band was founded in 2012 by organist Mark Brown

Modern Art Orchestra

Active since: 2006

Lively, snappy, intuitive and captivating. Since its forming in 2005, Modern Art Orchestra has been a melting pot for the artistry of highly qualified young musicians in Hungary’s jazz, classical music and crossover scene. Founder and director of the band, Hungary’s leading trumpeter Kornél Fekete-Kovács established the first line of musicians with the dream of operating a contemporary big band which would focus on playing compositions by some of the best contemporary creative musicians of the country. Through its first years of activity, Modern Art Orchestra received masterpieces from composers like Péter Eötvös

Junk Function

Active since: January 1, 1990

Junk Function was born as the Eclectic Jazz Experience in 2010 as its members at the time began their senior year in high school. In 2011, the EJE released its first full- length album, "Leave It At That," which showcased a young, growing, dynamic group. Three years and numerous lineup changes later, we're back. The band currently consists of six men, current students of five universities in three states. For any band that wants to, you know, play gigs, record, even rehearse, this situation presents a bit of a problem. But over the years we have continued to find a way to do all of those things, usually on breaks from school

Rebellum

Rebellum is a rene­gade splin­ter cell hacked from the recom­bi­nant cor­pus of Burnt Sugar Arkestra, Melvin Van Pee­bles’ wid­Lax­a­tive and Funk­Face. The group’s debut album was com­posed and pro­duced this past sum­mer by BS maven Greg Tate, FF Lord Luq­man Brown, and Sugar Lax­a­tive straw­boss Jared Michael Nick­er­son, in the Harlem stu­dios of Bud­dhaBug Records. File under Avant-Agit-Pop. The 17 tunes on Rebellum's debut album The Dark­nuss bleed a bloody pro­fu­sion of exotic elements–warped soul har­monies, free­dom swing horn play, mag­got brained gui­tar bursts and orches­tral loopadelics

Klyntel

Active since: December 17, 1969

KLYNTEL (KLY-N-TELL) is a band that specializes in “collective grooves”. From Fusion Jazz to Funk, from Rock to Soul, Klyntel prides themselves on musicianship. Created in the late 90’s as an R&B quartet, Klyntel took a hiatus from the scene to raise their families but resurrected themselves as a band in early 2009 to get back to the art of real music. No auto tune, no loops, just creative genius and craftsmanship. Klyntel’s first CD “Uninhibited: The Groove Collective” was a myriad of instrumental jams they compiled over the first year of their rebirth which produced such hits as “Red CoolAde” & “My Time” a favorite in Europe. The Second CD “The Elected Eclectic” is a more R&B –High Energy Jazzy feel with funk connotations

Orsi Kozma Quartet

The Orsi Kozma Quartet has been a unique colour on the palette of the Hungarian jazz scene ever since their debut in 2008. Soulprints is their third studio album, and, as in case of a band that has been making music together for seven years now, the sound of the album is mature and is very much worthy of its predecessors – Hide and Seek (2008), Embrace (2010) – yet offers a unique, fresh voice, showing the band’s capability to be true to their sound, yet create a fresh and exciting new tone. This album is richer and much more refined than ‘Hide and Seek’, the formation’s firstborn, which became a Fonogram Music Award nominee immediately upon its release in 2008 and has also been released in Japan in 2010. The songs of the Soulprints album truly are “prints of the soul”: they are mood-patchworks which project an important stage in the history of the Quartet