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Pianist Dan Furman doesn't want jazz to have to imitate the past. "We all grew up listening to rock and roll, pop, funk and whatever else made it on the radio. When I play a standard, I try to bring something from today's world into the interpretation." Furman began playing piano and writing music at the age of 6 in Old Hickory, Tennessee (just outside of Nashville). He went on to study composition and jazz piano at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. At Oberlin he fronted and wrote for the "Skymonks," an original "free" jazz group. Following school, he spent a year in South America studying Latin music and playing with bands in Lima, Peru

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Primordial Jazz Funktet Announces Release of First CD, 'We Are Here"

June 1, 2009

JUNE 1, 2009 (New York, NY) The Jazz Funktet announces the release of its first CD, Are Here, now available at iTunes and CDBaby. The band is organized by pianist and composer, Dan Furman, and includes the popular hiphop artist Maya Azucena and jazz saxophonist Joel Frahm. The Primordial Jazz Funktet began in Atlanta, GA and ...