Thanks to Urban Tulsa Weekly for listing Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey as part of their Hot 100 of 2011:
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Band
JFJO may be touring internationally and garnering praise worldwide, but the ensemble returned home to Tulsa — both literally and figuratively — for The Race Riot Suite. Recorded at [...]
A Tragic, Yet Uplifting, Symphony for Tulsa Posted: 9/7/11 03:34 PM ET Click Here for the full article. “We had wanted to do an ensemble album, so we pulled together all these horn players and landed the Church Studio, Leon Russell’s place, to produce it,” Combs said. “The church was built in 1916 [...]
“Nearly all of Tulsa’s storied musical legacy was enveloped in this aural manifestation of the destruction – and rebirth – of culture, community and creative expression. Represented in Friday’s performance was free jazz, pop, rock, blues, Western Swing and bluegrass with piano, lap steel, double bass and a brass ensemble.
All of it was [...]
Recently Chris Combs sat down with Explore Tulsa to talk about Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey’s The Race Riot Suite: