Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord – ‘Harder On the Outside’ (2019)
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.
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.
After the septet outing ‘Loafer’s Hollow’, Moppa Elliot makes “less is more” the mantra for the trio feature ‘Paint’. Which only goes to show that size really doesn’t matter with Mostly Other People Do The Killing; only gumption does.
Blurring the lines between art and wit for fourteen years running, Mostly Other People Do The Killing are still making absurdity in jazz fun.
If you like ‘Kind of Blue,’ then you…uhh…will like ‘Blue’.
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
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuxpYZDQLnk&w=420&h=315] I like Mostly Other People Do The Killing (heretofore referred to as MOPDTK) because they’re merry musical marksmen, top drawer jazz musicians who shoot down every style they suggest. But I don’t know how many other people can dig this. You May Also Like: Mostly Other People DoRead 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
Yet another product from Moppa Elliot’s Hot Cup Records, which already says a lot about a record that shares the same label as Bryan And The Haggards, Puttin’ On The Ritz, and Mostly Other People Do The Killing. But we were already saying things — nice things — about Lundbom’sRead More
by S. Victor Aaron When Jon Irabagon signed with the mighty Concord Records after bagging the 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition for saxophone, you might assume that he would have left behind his wild side to become a more “serious” player. But his continued involvement in the gangsta jazzRead More