#173 – One Day In Brooklyn

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – the name is as unique as the sounds they produce. For well over a decade this band has brought us their style of jazz through original compositions and inventive covers, running the gamut from Flaming Lips to Beethoven.  We have enjoyed it all.  The band is currently on their release tour for their new recording “One Day In Brooklyn”, this tour features pianist/leader/founder Brian Haas, drummer Josh Raymer, upright bassist Matt Hayes, and guitarist Chris Combs.  Some dates on the tour will even add Mike Gordon, bassist from Phish, as if you needed more incentive to check out a live show.

The band not only pushes the envelope in sound but is at the forefront of digital music and digital downloads.  They offer many live recordings for download on their website and a download of their recording “Winterwood” is totally free on the site, a thanks to years worth of fans, head over there now by clicking HERE.

We’ll here music from The Sameness Of Difference, Live @ Largo, Winterwood and the new release “One Day In Brooklyn”.  I also have some interview segments with Brian Hass talking about the band and composition and new projects.

Catch this show then head out to catch a live show – both worth every minute and more.

This Week’s Playlist:

Jazz Odyssey Playlist #173

To say that JFJO’s music transcends boundaries and expands minds is an understatement. Since 1994, JFJO has brought their impressionistic and improvisational vision from the Midwest’s Bible-Belt to many of the world’s finest music festivals and clubs. Music listeners are blown away by JFJO’s instrumental creativity, musical risk, and near telepathy on stage. In the past 18 months, JFJO has travelled to Europe four times and have played at major jazz festivals all over the world.

A description of JFJO’s new sound for those yet to hear the latest incarnation is in order — this is after all a band once described by Signal To Noise as having “a breadth and vision nearly untouched in modern jazz except by the likes of Wayne Shorter and Bill Frisell.” With the addition of Combs on lap steel and Hayes on acoustic bass, JFJO has perhaps invented its own genre: red dirt jazz, equal parts earthy and nimble, pastoral and sweeping, elegant and rollicking.