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Original Carolina Beach Music : Dance The Night...
The Fantasticks (1960 Original Off-off-Broadway Cast) [Cast Recording]
About the Artist
From Tulsa, Oklahoma, Brian Haas (Fender Rhodes, melodica and acoustic piano) ,Jason Smart (drums) and Reed Mathis (bass) pull influences from nearly every genre of music, diverse as John Coltrane, and Jimi Hendrix, to Thelonious Monk and KRS-ONE. Together since 1994 and performing over 200 live appearances per year, JFJO is constantly expanding their horizons by collaborating with the likes of Les Claypool, Charlie Hunter, Karl Denson, DJ Logic, John Scofield, Critters Buggin', The Slip, and the list goes on and on... JFJO have integrated their improvisational music deeply into the jazz and festival scenes, breaking new ground each year by performing at The Gathering of the Vibes, Berkshire Mountain Music Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, High Sierra, South by Southwest (SxSW)...
Album Description
a seamless string of free-improvisations, done in the moment without preconception, in a variety of settings. Captured live in concert in the early morning hours, the start of the album finds the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey closing out the High Sierra Music Festival, in a hall packed with thousands of mesmerized festival goers. By the end of the album we find them doing the same thing as the sun rises at the close of the New Orleans Jazz Festival (complete with an all-star horn section!), this time captured in an intimite room filled with music-hungrey up-all-nighters egging them on. Aside from a brief theme thrown in from the Jacob Fred composition 'Son of Jah', the entire album is played in the trio's own unique signature of free-improvisation as a unit, allowing faith in the passing moment to shape each piece. It makes for some amazing listening discoveries, as you hear wave after wave of discovery washing over these inspired players. special guests: saxophonists Skerik, Mark Southerland, Brad Houser, and Frank Catalano