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Article: Album Review

Brian Haas / Matt Chamberlain: Frames

by Chris May
October 7, 2013

It is not often an album confounds expectations to the degree that Frames does. And confounds them not just once but twice. The first expectation arises from the players' histories. Brian Haas is best known for his work with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, the spectacularly trans-genre band which the pianist co-founded twenty years ago. ...

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Article: Interview

Chris Combs: Jacob Fred's Tulsa Tale

by Daniel Lehner
September 19, 2011

On a Memorial Day in 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, an encounter between a young black shoe shiner named Dick Rowland and a white elevator operator named Sarah Page--an incident that was reported with hazy details and shocking incompleteness--started one of the most brutal and tragic race riots in American history. Even more tragic, however, was how little ...

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Article: Album Review

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Race Riot Suite

Read "Race Riot Suite" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
September 19, 2011

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's Race Riot Suite is a reminder how adventurous the group has always been since its inception in 1994--never more so, perhaps, than in its latest incarnation, in place beginning in 2010. Four intervals, labeled “Prayers," are interspersed throughout the seven formally labeled tracks and allow JFJO to demonstrate its own ...

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News: Recording

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey to Release "Race Riot Suite"

July 7, 2011

Available August 30 on Vinyl, CD & MP3 from Kinnara Records/Royal Potato Family Featuring Brian Haas (piano), Chris Combs (lap steel guitar), Jeff Harshbarger (upright bass), Josh Raymer (drums) plus special guests Steven Bernstein (trumpet, slide trumpet), Peter Apfelbaum (tenor & baritone saxophone), Jeff Coffin (tenor saxophone), Mark Southerland (tenor saxophone), and Matt Leland (trombone) “When ...

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News: Recording

Brian Haas Free Solo Album

March 25, 2009

Brian Haas Free Solo Album Brian Haas (JFJO) has announced the release of his new solo album entitled Petting Sounds. The album is an improvised symphony for solo piano that he recorded in one continuous session. Petting Sounds was engineered and co-produced by Teddy Jack Russell (Leon Russell's son). The album was recorded in Ojai, California ...