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Buffalo Jazz Octet

The Buffalo Jazz Octet has performed since 2011, combining the power and compositional intricacy of a large ensemble with the flexibility and dynamism of a small improvising combo. The octet collaborated with saxophone legend Joe Ford (of various McCoy Tyner bands) in 2015, and the band's members have worked individually with internationally noted musicians ranging from Buddy Morrow and Don Menza to Wadada Leo Smith and William Parker. The group's debut album, recorded live at Pausa Art House in May 2016, comes out April 20, 2017 on Cadence Jazz Records. The octet has appeared at the 2014 and 2015 Queen City Jazz Festivals, Villa Maria College, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and Pausa Art House.

PausaLive

By Buffalo Jazz Octet

Label: Cadence Jazz Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Sculptured; traffic.tactic; Homeage; Second the Motian; What Are the 39 Steps?; Vampires; Tracheal Rubric.

Buffalo Jazz Octet: PausaLive

by Patrick Keyes
April 27, 2017

The Buffalo Jazz Octet, a group of veteran musicians culled from the strong jazz community in Buffalo, NY, offers a boldly realized collective voice that sings of a wide-open future on PausaLive. PausaLive both reinforces and obliterates notions of jazz as a convenient label. The writing is beguiling, the musicians contribute top-notch inside and ...