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Xenoblast

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2000

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The Jazz Mandolin Project: Xenoblast

Read "Xenoblast" reviewed by David Adler


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


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


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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