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The Jazz Mandolin Project: Xenoblast

Read "Xenoblast" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler
September 1, 2000

The Jazz Mandolin Project may now have this major label debut under its belt, but in various incarnations, the unconventional trio has been touring and recording since 1993. With the current jam band craze, and the legitimacy the genre is gaining in the jazz world, it is finally the right moment for leader/mandolinist Jamie Masefield’s quirky ...

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the Jazz Mandolin Project: Xenoblast

Read "Xenoblast" reviewed by Rob Evanoff

by Rob Evanoff
July 1, 2000

The Jazz Mandolin Project? Mandolin and Jazz? Jazz played by a Mandolin? Throw your preconceptions out the window and open up your ears to experience a Xenoblast through time. The Jazz Mandolin Project, who are at home at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival or a Jamband Festival such as the Berkshire Mountain Music Fest, return with ...

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The Jazz Mandolin Project: Xenoblast

Read "Xenoblast" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
June 1, 2000

Jamie Masefield’s string jazz trio swings through a package of interesting themes that range from folk history to ride-cymbal-mainstream-jazz and on to blazing hot, electronic, backbeat jazz-rock. His compositions feature lovely melodies that adhere to specific impressions. These mental pictures become focal points for group improvisation and repetitious jam sessions. Masefield’s vivid imagery leaves no doubt ...

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Tour de Flux

By Jazz Mandolin Project

Label: Accurate Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Flux; Chapeau; Good and Plenty; Barber's Hint; Boodha; Clip; Nimbus; The Phoenicians.

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The Jazz Mandolin Project: Tour de Flux

Read "Tour de Flux" reviewed by Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1999

Mandolin, yes, but you won't find any foggy mountain bluegrass here. When these folks took the name the Jazz Mandolin Project, they could have been inspired by the Truth in Advertising Commission. Actually, without knowing that Jamie Masefield is wielding a mandolin (as well as a “tenor banjo"), a casual listener might figure that this is ...

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Jazz Mandolin Project: Tour De Flux

by Ed Kopp
March 1, 1999

“The future belongs to musicians willing to explore timbre in terms of new combinations of instruments that are not standard." So said jazz saxophonist and owner of Postcard Records Ralph Simon in a December 1997 JazzTimes article about the future of jazz.If Simon is right -- and I believe he is -- the future ...

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Jazz Mandolin Project: Tour De Flux

Read "Tour De Flux" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 1999

The name attracts attention; outside of Dave Grisman, “mandolin jazz” is a contradiction of terms. This record, the Project’s second, comes after an impromptu tour with a new lineup, including the drummer from Phish. The novelty of the mandolin is soon forgotten; you remember the energy, the mad strumming, the restless exploration. This is many things, ...

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The Jazz Mandolin Project: Tour de Flux

Read "Tour de Flux" reviewed by Douglas Payne

by Douglas Payne
March 1, 1999

This Burlington, Vermont trio sounds more like an accomplished guitar trio than the gimmick their name might suggest. Maybe that's what makes Tour de Flux, the group's second disc in their four-year history, an absolute knock-out.Mandolin and banjo pyro-technician Jamie Masefield more or less leads the band. He's a methodic, even erudite player that ...

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