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Nod

Label: New Artists Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Bird's Word; Little Melonae; Happiness Is; Waynopolis; Love and Persevere; Manhattan; These Foolish Things; Platform Shoes - Apocalypse

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jessica Jones Quartet Nod New Artists Records 2004 One of the first things apparent about this album is that it doesn't dwell in any particular time zone. Jessica Jones' third quartet album, Nod , opens with an ensemble that sounds deliberately muffled like a 1950s bebop ...

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Article: Album Review

Jessica Jones Quartet: Nod

by Dan McClenaghan
July 19, 2004

The title of the Jessica Jones Quartet's latest CD, Nod, is “Don" spelled backwards, a reverse tipping of the hat to Don Cherry, the trumpeter who ran with Ornette Coleman back in the early days of free jazz, on several groundbreaking albums of the genre. But here's the rub: the set doesn't have Cherry's sound; if ...

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Article: Album Review

Jessica Jones Quartet: Nod

by John Kelman
July 16, 2004

Elegantly bridging the gap between free playing and more structured work, tenor saxophonist/pianist Jessica Jones and her quartet deliver a record that bucks convention while, remarkably, remaining somewhat true to it. Influenced as much by the Art Ensemble of Chicago as by Wayne Shorter and Jackie McLean, Nod comfortably traverses a variety of territories, including open-ended ...