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Article: Film Review

Chicago Underground Trio: Chronicle

Read "Chicago Underground Trio: Chronicle" reviewed by Nic Jones


Chicago Underground Trio Chronicle Delmark 2007 This DVD marks a break with precedent for Delmark in terms of its content. Whereas their previous titles have documented live performances in the raw with little in the way of visual stimulus outside that of the musicians working, this one is ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Chicago Underground Trio: Chronicle

Read "Chicago Underground Trio: Chronicle" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Trumpeter Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor have a long history as experimental musicians. They play in several different bands and pull in like-minded musicians to expand into a trio or into the larger context of an “orchestra. For this venture they have Jason Ajemian on bass. Chicago Underground Trio Chronicle ...

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Slon

Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2004
Track listing: Protest; Slon; Zagreb; Sevens; Campbell Town; Kite; Palermo; Shoe Lace; Pear.

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Article: Album Review

Chicago Underground Trio: Slon

Read "Slon" reviewed by Rex  Butters


The prolific Chicago Underground expands its discography with a trio session featuring the fusion of laptops, acoustic jazz instrumentals, and charged free improvisations that defines their recorded output. The program of heated high speed interplay and cold techno ice caps displays a range of sonic intent rarely matched. For “Protest,” Noel Kupersmith bangs ...

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Article: Album Review

Chicago Underground Trio: Slon

Read "Slon" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The music of the Chicago Underground Trio (and Duo and Quartet and Orchestra) has always been about fragments of sound. Not so much abstract disassociation (of those fragments) but discovery of associations and the connotations of their similarities. Whether they are post-Miles, post-Ornette, post-rock, or simply the new Chicago aesthetic, the Trio is pulling ...

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Slon

Label: Giant Records
Released: 2003

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Flamethrower

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Quail; Fahrenheit 451; Warm Marsh; Antiquity; Flamethrower; Woman In Motion; Triceptikon; A Lesson Earned; Arcweld; Elroy; Number 19; 504; The Tungflec Treaty; The World Has Changed; Elray.

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Chicago Underground Trio: Flamethrower

Read "Flamethrower" reviewed by Derek Taylor


‘Chicago Underground’ is an overarching appellation for a myriad of projects under Rob Mazurek’s nominal leadership. Its various guises include Duo, Trio and Orchestra incarnations. Peripheral to these associations Mazurek and his partners also work together in a variety of other outfits including Isotope 217 and Tortoise. All of these groups demonstrate a penchant for electro-acoustic ...

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Article: Album Review

Chicago Underground Trio: Flamethrower

Read "Flamethrower" reviewed by AAJ Staff


For the Chicago Underground Trio, anything goes. On Flamethrower, swinging jazz wanders in and out of an otherwise very free field. The opening track, for example, starts with a six-note bass groove. Jeff Parker steps in for a crisp, swinging guitar solo, then the ensemble gradually travels into free jazz territory. Punchy clusters replace clean lines, ...

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Possible Cube

Label: Giant Records
Released: 1999


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