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Chris Combs: Combsy
by Doug Collette
It does no disservice to Combsy or the man who made it to state how favorably it compares to the most recent work of the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey in terms of both style and quality. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Chris Combs was integral to the concepts and production of The Race Riot Suite (Kinnara, 2011) and Worker (Royal Potato Family, 2014), so it's only natural work under his own name would so vividly reflect those approaches.The self-effacing charm ...
read moreJacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's Chris Combs Interviewed at All About Jazz
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All About Jazz
On a Memorial Day in 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, an encounter between a young black shoe shiner named Dick Rowland and a white elevator operator named Sarah Page—an incident that was reported with hazy details and shocking incompleteness—started one of the most brutal and tragic race riots in American history. Even more tragic, however, was how little the event was discussed by national or even Oklahoman sources. It was an event that Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's pedal steel guitarist Chris Combs, ...
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