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Industrial Jazz Group

A Brief History of the Industrial Jazz Group Formed by composer / pianist Andrew Durkin in the spring of 2000, the Industrial Jazz Group has frequently been accused of confounding innocent listeners. And no wonder: in addition to its perplexing name (the group could never be confused with, say, Nine Inch Nails), the IJG seems to change shape?"aesthetically and physically?"every year or so. Sure the music is always fun (and it should here be noted that many of the group

Industrial Jazz Group Returns to Southern California

July 14, 2010

The 15-piece Industrial Jazz Group (IJG), an adventurous big band featuring the music of composer Andrew Durkin, will be touring Southern California this August, with performances on August 19 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and on August 20 at Dizzy's in San Diego. Returning to the road ten months after an east coast tour--in ...

Leef

By Industrial Jazz Group

Label: Evander Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Ladies and Gentlemen; And Go; Don't Let 'em Getcha; PDX LIX LAX; My Guitar; Bongo Non Troppo; What's Industrial Jazz?; What's in Anne's Icebox?; The Job Song;The Hotdog Hat; Howl; Big Ass Preview; Richardson's Road Poem; Big Ass Truck; Fuck the Muck; Fuck the Muck (2); Big Ass Truck (radio edit);The Job Song (radio edit).

The Jazz Session #98: Industrial Jazz Group

October 19, 2009

The Industrial Jazz Group is a 15-ish-piece large ensemble that plays the inventive, challenging and often hilarious music of composer Andrew Durkin. That sentence, though, doesn't come close to doing them justice. The band, made up of musicians fluent in jazz, classical and rock and inspired by the free-for-all spirit of Frank Zappa is a force ...

Industrial Jazz Group: Leef

by Matthew Miller
October 15, 2009

It's hard to take anything about the Industrial Jazz Group for granted. Even the LA-based ensemble's name is misleading to the point that its leader, Andrew Durkin, feels the need to address it in the header of the group's website. “So we're not really industrial. Were The Beatles really insects?" As explanations go--humorous as they might ...

Leef

By Industrial Jazz Group

Label: Evander Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Ladies and Gentlemen; And Go; Don't Let 'Em Getcha; PDX LIX LAX; My Guitar; Bongo Non Troppo; What's Industrial Jazz?; What's in Anne's Icebox?; The Job Song; The Hotdog Hat; Howl; Big Ass Preview; Richardson's Road Poem; Big Ass Truck; Fuck the Muck (part one); Fuck the Muck (part two); Big Ass Truck (radio edit); The Job Song (radio edit).

Industrial Jazz Group: LEEF

by Brad Glanden
May 13, 2008

It's difficult to fathom a universe where someone would not enjoy listening to LEEF. One would have to be conditioned, Clockwork Orange-style, into finding the sound of musical instruments morally reprehensible. There's nothing on the Industrial Jazz Group's album that couldn't be embraced wholeheartedly by someone with an otherwise unrepentant disdain for all things jazzy.

Industrial Jazz Group: Industrial Jazz A Go Go!

by Andrey Henkin
March 9, 2007

For those expecting to read about Ministry tunes played by full trumpet sections, stop right now. The Industrial Jazz Group has absolutely nothing to do with industrial music per se. I might posit that the adjective refers to an almost assembly line-like amalgamation of every known big band style into one mechagodzilla that destroys Tokyo.

Industrial Jazz Group: Industrial Jazz A Go Go!

by Brad Glanden
January 23, 2007

Few categorical terms inspire as much trepidation among listeners as “avant-garde," and it is decidedly difficult to market music labeled as such. Even so, many artists on the fringe have tempered their envelope-pushing works with material that could be accused of having top-forty aspirations. It is rare indeed to discover someone capable of writing music that ...

Industrial Jazz A Go Go!

By Industrial Jazz Group

Label: Evander Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Doo Wha?; Elmore Was Here; Bandoleero, Part One; Bandoleero, Part Two; The Truth and the Abstract Blues; Cannon Indie; El Grupo De Jazz Industriale; Baby, Shake That Thing.