Click here for the original review (in German). Below is the Google translation of the section of the review about The Race Riot Suite performance. “The compulsion to permanent innovation has long been in the free music to a...
The new Brian Haas / Matt Chamberlain album, Frames, is set to be released Oct. 15 on Kinnara/Royal Potato/Red/MRI. A through composed work for piano and percussion written entirely by Haas, Frames features eleven unique compositions that spiral through...
Thanks to Clinton Vadnais for this awesome clip of the Quintet playing Prelude > Black Wall Street in October 2011:
With thousands of votes submitted, the people have spoken! Here are your winners of Oklahoma Gazette’s Woody Awards for 2012! Best in Jazz: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Not long ago, we called the state’s reigning alt-jazz act “the QuikTrip...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – Race Riot Suite – Kinnara Records Click Here to visit the Ink19 website Who knew such whacked-out music could come from Tulsa? Hell, anywhere! The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey formed in 1994 in Oklahoma,...
There is an old joke that jazz is five musicians playing five different songs at the same time. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey managed to both prove and disprove that statement during their set at 2720 Cherokee on Saturday. Miles...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – February 25th & 26th – Dazzle Jazz BY JON PRINS – MARCH 1, 2012 POSTED IN: PHOTOS, REVIEWS, SLIDESHOW ARTICLES Energy: A Sound: A Musicianship: A+ Stage Presence: A+ Set/Light show: N/A Overall: A...
Starting on February 19, 2012 Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey began releasing a special series of A & B sides. These lo-fi unmastered tracks capture a raw, distilled, and reconstructed version of The Race Riot Suite material. The A Side...
Nippertown has named The Race Riot Suite the #1 jazz album of the year!! …and the Number One Jazz CD of 2011: 1. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey’s “Race Riot Suite” (Royal Potato Family) An African-American community in Tulsa was...