In uncertain times like these, it’s nice to have the comfort of knowing that Tom Tallitsch is going to deliver on a near-annual basis that kind of jazz that made you fall in love with jazz in the first place. That’s the ‘Message’ in this music.

Tom Tallitsch’s ‘Ten’ sometimes posits itself closer to rock than jazz, but it retains all the improvisation and musicianship associated with the latter.

Though the lineup changed for ‘Harder On the Outside,’ daring and creativity has been the constant of Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord for its 15-year existence.

Lundbom’s original tune “The Bottle” is a good indicator that there’s no let up from Big Five Chord in Jeremiah from their previous five records.

Jon Lundbom’s Big Five Chord shares a lot of members with Bryan & the Haggards and Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and thus, that wild and wooly DNA is built into the band. You May Also Like: Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord – ‘Harder On the Outside’ (2019)Read More

The daring guitarist/composer Jon Lundbom is back at it again, meting out intense, unpredictable guerrilla jazz with his Big Five Chord quintet. No New Tunes follows up on last year’s Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! You May Also Like: Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord – ‘Harder On the Outside’ (2019)Read More