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SIDES F: Jazzers Monument
2009
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what: jazz/punk jazz/swing
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for fans of: Lounge Lizards, Ribot, Frisell, Zorn, Mingus, Duke

More an EP than a proper album (or a true album SIDE?), Jazzers Monument presents a few examples of what I was offering up jazz-wise in those days before The Greg Samo One-tet. The master genre of jazz may be the only thread that holds these pieces together: "Haunted Rhodes" is a minimalist piece for keys, "Kid About It" is an Elvis Costello cover taken in a very plaintive direction in a setting for piano and two guitars, "A Night in the Drunk Tank" and "Stupefaction Supremo" are both midi performances of propulsive swing-based hard bop, and "Birdlambed" (a near homonym of Birdland) synthesizes all sorts of jazz into a cut-and-paste monster that is all its own.
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