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Article: Album Review

Q'd Up: Going Places

Read "Going Places" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 14, 2021

Q'd Up is a quintet comprising faculty members at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The group's latest album, Going Places, marks the end of an era, as two of its longest-serving members—multi-instrumentalist Ray Smith and pianist Steve Lindeman--are indeed “going places." In other words, they are retiring and making their final recorded appearance with the ...

News: Recording

Q'd Up Closes A Chapter Of Its Own History With 'Going Places,' Set For Release Oct. 8 On Tantara Records

August 11, 2021

Q’d Up celebrates its enduring creative bounty on Tantara Records’ October 8 release Going Places. The venturesome quintet, formed in 1983 out of the jazz faculty at Brigham Young University, packs their seventh recording with eleven original compositions of hard-charging, straight-ahead jazz with bold progressive touches. Going Places also marks a sunset of sorts for the ...