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Enter the "Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Race Riot Suite" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey—Race Riot Suite“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on November 8th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Click here to ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's Chris Combs Interviewed at All About Jazz
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 ...
Chris Combs: Jacob Fred's Tulsa Tale
by Daniel Lehner
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 ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Race Riot Suite
by Doug Collette
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 ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - The Race Riot Suite (2011)
The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is a band that's clearly relished keeping people guessing—down to the fictional person in the band name—and while jazz has always been the starting point for their music, it's anyone's guess where the band would take it from one album to the next. We last visited JFJO more than three years ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey to Release "Race Riot Suite"
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 ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Performing Thursday, March 31 at Cicero's
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is coming to St. Louis to perform on Thursday, March 31 at Cicero's. Founded in 1994 in Tulsa, the jazz/funk/jam band has changed personnel and evolved its sound considerably over the years. They started as an eight-piece group, pared down to a trio in 1999, and most recently became a quartet in ...
Take Five With Jon Wirtz
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jon Wirtz: Arriving on the Denver scene just a few years ago, Jon Wirtz has since performed for millions of people, both locally and nationally. Over the past eight years he has performed mainly as a sideman, having worked with Grammy Award-winning producer Malcolm Burn on multiple occasions, and shared the stage with ...
Watch Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey rearrange Beethoven w/ a 50 piece orchestra
After years of labor, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's reinterpretations of Beethoven's 3rd & 6th Symphonies premiered in June as a project entitled “Ludwig." The project, which rearranged Beethoven's 3rd & 6th symphonies, was premiered alongside a 50 piece orchestra on June 12th as a headline performance at the OK Mozart Festival. Downbeat is calling 'Ludwig' “a ...
