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Lucky 7's: Pluto Junkyard

Read "Pluto Junkyard" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
June 26, 2009

The brainchild of trombonists Jeb Bishop and Jeff Albert, the Lucky 7's are a consummate example of post-Vandermark Chicago-based collectivism. Bishop's longstanding work with fellow artists such as Rob Mazurek, Ted Sirota and Ken Vandermark informs his inside-outside approach, lending a forward thinking but historically aware sensibility to this versatile mid-sized ensemble. A New Orleans native, ...

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Josh Berman: Old Idea

Read "Old Idea" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
May 31, 2009

As co-leader of the Emerging Improvisers and Umbrella Collective with drummer Mike Reed, cornetist Josh Berman has been a pivotal force in the Chicago jazz scene. A regular member of Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown, Jeb Bishop's Lucky 7's, Keefe Jackson's Project Project and Fast Citizens and Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, Berman has proven to be a ...

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Just Like This

By Keefe Jackson

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Dragon Fly; Grass Is Greener; Titled; Just Like This; Which Well; Wind-Up Toy.

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Keefe Jackson's Project Project: Just Like This

Read "Just Like This" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
April 9, 2008

This one could almost be a working definition of what Delmark exists for, documenting as it does an aspect of Chicago's seemingly ever-evolving creative improvised music scene and in so doing giving further exposure to a group of musicians surely destined to make an impact far outside the city's environs. If anything Jackson's writing for this ...

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Keefe Jackson's Project Project: Just Like This

Read "Just Like This" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
February 13, 2008

Why does tenor saxophonist Keefe Jackson call this band Project Project? Is it because he gives composition and improvisation separate identities and the merges them skillfully? That's just a thought. His ability to write and orchestrate music that sings and celebrates, and then have members of his band incise it with an unabashed sense of adventure, ...

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Keefe Jackson's Project Project "Just Like This" Delmark CD Release Party- Feb 24 at Hungry Brain, Chicago

February 4, 2008

Keefe Jackson and his “big band" - Project Project will celebrate his new Delmark Records release, “Just Like This" at the Hungry Brain on Chicago's north side - 10 pm, Sunday, February 24, 2008 Adventurous composer/saxophonist/clarinetist Keefe Jackson leads a big band of All star creative jazz players on the Chicago scene. Keefe Jackson - tenor ...

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Keefe Jackson's Project Project: Just Like This

Read "Just Like This" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
January 19, 2008

Arriving in Chicago from Fayetteville, Arkansas in 2000, multi-instrumentalist Keefe Jackson has been steadily making waves in the Windy City's vibrant jazz community. His recent offering, the swinging and adventurous Just Like This, showcases Jackson's historically aware writing as well as the astute abilities of his collaborators. Ready Everyday (Delmark, 2006) was the adventurous ...

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Keefe Jackson's Project Project: Just Like This

Read "Just Like This" reviewed by John Barron

by John Barron
January 19, 2008

Just Like This, Chicago-based saxophonist/composer Keefe Jackson's second recording as a leader for Delmark Records, is a vivacious, provocative musical statement featuring the 12-member collective, Project Project. With hints of Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington, Jackson's compositions are ripe with thick chord clusters, swinging rhythms and jarring, yet lyrical melodies. Interspersed amongst orchestral flourishes and stand-out ...

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Keefe Jackson's Project Project: Just Like This

Read "Just Like This" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
January 11, 2008

Like an elephant dressed in a tuxedo, its hulk swaying to the tempo of some infectious beat; so too is the audacity and undeniable presence of Just Like This by Keefe Jackson's Project Project. The liner notes refer to the twelve-player ensemble as a circus. And rightly so, for it's a bodacious, colorful sound spectacle, led ...

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