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Bryan and the Haggards: Pretend It's the End of the World
by Dan McClenaghan
Can a saxophone “twang?" If it's a set of music celebrating the sounds of Bakersfield, California's county music legend, Merle Haggard, it had better do just that. And strangely, with Pretend It's the End of the World, by Bryan and the Haggards, the saxophone blowing of altoist Jon Irabagon and the tenorist/leader Bryan Murray find that ...
Announcing the Winners of the Hot Cup "Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Forty Fort" Giveaway
Jim Passin, Ceto Mundiarso, Gerald Porzio, Mike Brown and Sam Sadigursky, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Hot Cup Records “Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Forty Fort“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Hot Cup ...
Enter the Hot Cup "Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Fort Fort" Giveaway
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Hot Cup Records “Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Forty Fort“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on May 13th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Moppa Elliott at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good ...
Moppa Elliott & Jon Irabagon: Accomplish Jazz and Forty Fort
by Ivana Ng
Mostly Other People Do The Killing Forty Fort Hot Cup Records 2010 Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord Accomplish Jazz Hot Cup Records 2009
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Forty Fort
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Several wonderful things distinguish Mostly Other People Do The Killing (MOPDtK) from almost any other band playing today in the long shadows of Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman. These are, in no particular order: a wild humor; an extreme sense of the angular melody; brave harmonies; and a leaping sense of rhythm. None of these pay ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort
by Dan McClenaghan
Irreverent devils, aren't they, these four guys who make up the piano-less quartet called Mostly Other People Do the Killing (MOPDtK)? This is Our Moosic (Hot Cup Records, 2008) was a play on Ornette Coleman's This Is Our Music (Atlantic, 1960) in title and with the cover photo and design. Forty Fort sports a cover laid ...
Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Accomplish Jazz
by Mark Corroto
In the jazz world, there is something in the air. Barely detectable, but definitely something in the air these days. A whiff of change (or maybe the decay of traditions decomposing). It can be heard in the music the young lions (YL) are playing. These YLs are more like the Lee Morgan/Wayne Shorter YLs of the ...
Jon Irabagon: The Observer
by Troy Collins
Best known as the volatile saxophonist in bassist Moppa Elliott's self proclaimed terrorist be-bop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Jon Irabagon has only just begun his career as a solo artist. His bristling duet with drummer Mike Pride, I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues (Loyal Label, 2009) was preceded by Outright! (Innova, 2008), ...
Peter Evans: Nature/Culture
by John Sharpe
Far from unprecedented, solo trumpet records are still not part of humdrum experience. Since his revelatory debut More is More (psi, 2006), Peter Evans has pitted himself against a widening swathe of improvisers in both North America and Europe, while at the same time affectionately dismantling the jazz tradition with his own Quartet and Moppa Elliott's ...
Moppa Elliott Jazz History Scrambled, with Love and Respect
Theres a bustling, ostentatious impiety in the music of Mostly Other People Do the Killing. Led by the bassist Moppa Elliott, its a jazz quartet with a diligent grasp of history but an anarchic take on convention. At Zebulon in Brooklyn late on Thursday night, the group riffled through jazz idioms with hammy geniality, like an ...
