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  • Genre: Classical / Jazz / Rock

    Location Tulsa,OK & Kansas City,MO, Un

    Profile Views: 427927

    Last Login: 8/19/2011

    Member Since 10/13/2005

    Website www.JFJO.com

    Record Label Kinnara Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Rather than simply evoking Greenwood's destruction, however, the suite encompasses the region's creative ferment. Composed and arranged by Jacob Fred steel guitarist Chris Combs, the score captures the energy of Greenwood's fervent churchgoers and the rollicking territory dance bands that crisscrossed the Southwest.-LA Times "The new Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (+ horns) album might be their best" –NPR's A Blog Supreme "Both musically and spiritually, The Race Riot Suite is a significant, important work" -JazzIz "[The] Race Riot Suite is the type of ambitious, big sonic manifesto that at the very least will make you miss albums, and at the most make you reconsider the music currently in your iPod. In short, it's an important record……sounds like Duke Ellington under the direction of Tom Waits." -Westword "…the group has matured into one of the finest and most exciting jazz groups around." - Billboard "The Race Riot Suite isn't merely a serious contender for album-of-the-year. It's one of the most compelling jazz-based albums of the new millennium." –Plastic Sax "The Race Riot Suite is to JFJO what 'Fables of Faubus' was to Charles Mingus and 'We Insist! Freedom Now Suite was to Max Roach: a daring and profound manifesto of both jazz and politics" –Elmore Magazine "The music is filled with darkness, light, deep thought and inspiration all delivered with the inspiring playing of this airtight quartet of unique improvisers." -JazzTimes (review of JFJO at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal) "A breadth and vision nearly untouched in modern jazz except by the likes of Wayne Shorter and Bill Frisell." – Signal to Noise "…a tour de force of jazz melded with classical…" - Downbeat Magazine review of Ludwig "…one of the ensembles capable of pushing Jazz into the future with the creative vitality to keep new generations interested in the uniquely American art form." - City Beat "…it's here, between Coltrane and Yeasayer, Mingus and Animal Collective, and the very real sense of adventure, that JFJO truly find their stride, and Stay Gold, shines awfully bright." - Jambands.com "…the music of the 1920s is suggested by devices borrowed from New Orleans' Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton and from Tulsa's own Bob Wills. But those 90-year-old techniques often morph suddenly into the dissonance and harmolodic improvisation of modern jazz." –JazzTimes

  • Members

    Brian Haas: Piano/Rhodes Josh Raymer: Drums Jeff Harshbarger: Upright Bass Chris Combs: Lap Steel/Guitar

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    conversating redwoods, sunshine, lightning storms

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  • Der Neue Westen !WESTEN…

    Hey Leute...
    Endlich kommt "Der neue Westen" mit neuem Material!
    Ab jetzt könnt ihr den ersten Teil der "Wetsen Jargon" Cd-Reihe kaufen, auf dem sich 18 Tracks befinden die euch die Ohren weghauen werden!
    Die Cd kostet nur 6,90€ und ist somit ein absolutes Muss für jeden "Westler"...
    Allerdings nur in limitierter Stückzahl vorhanden, also schnell sein bevor alle weg sind!

    !!Die Cd kann man unter: www.derneuewesten.com bestellen!!



    18 Songs wurden produziert von Loggarizm, Bazzilar,den Trommelfellaz u.A.
    Neben der kompletten Westenformation geben sich hier auch Gäste wie JayJay, Skor, Brenna, Greckoe, David Asphalt,Marcellus Whiskey und Lukey die Ehre.

    1 year ago
  • Travis Bryson

    please come and play at the Paseo arts festival again!!!!!!

    1 year ago
  • Jam Bands Europe

    interview with Brian Haas plus review and photo essay of march 15th Eindhoven concert at http://www.jambandseurope.com

    1 year ago
  • everything is everything

    Love, love love Sensation of Seeing Light!!!!

    1 year ago
  • natty dreads

    oh, and any thought for a Sean's Song with the newest lineup? its somethin i daydream about haha.

    2 years ago
  • natty dreads

    hey guys. im goin to amsterdam for my springbreak and i just realized youll be there when i am. so when in eindhoven, look for the crazy american wearing the 2006 tour shirt. im bringing some crazy dutch people i know. my city show list will now be dallas, austin, tulsa....and eindhoven...pretty cool. see you soon.
    chris

    2 years ago
  • Newton Fangled

    great painting music

    2 years ago
  • Doug Peters

    HAPPY NEW YEAR JFJO!
    Wishing you all the best for 2010...
    With warmest regards,  Doug.  d:)

    2 years ago
  • Eclipse

    What an amazing show! Happy New years!!  - your homies at the eclipse

    2 years ago
  • Mo' Doppler And The Dop…

    Come back to Chicago! I missed you when you were at the Kinetic Playground!

    2 years ago
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