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by AAJ Staff
The ODD Jazz Quartet, as this Canadian group is also known, is not particularly strange about the way it plies its open-ended approach to jazz styles from funk to bop to free, all cleverly merged on Liberté 54--which for some reason has only been released in Canada. The words unusual" or inventive" would better describe the music on this nine-track, fifty-minute album.
After a scintillating performance at last year's Montreal Jazz Festival, ODD won the festival's grand prize, which included ...
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