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The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: JFJO: The Sameness of Difference

Read "JFJO: The Sameness of Difference" reviewed by Doug Collette


The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey hits its stride with a flourish on the The Sameness of Difference. The fluidity and focus of the trio is palpable as the players position themselves at a nexus between the worlds of traditional and contemporary jazz.

You don't necessarily have to listen to JFJO pianist Brian Haas' solo album The Truth About Hollywood to appreciate the group effort, but it helps (and it's a pleasure to listen on its own terms). But don't think ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Marcello Benetti, Matt Kane, Dave Dickey Big Band, the 442s, and More

Jazz This Week: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Marcello Benetti, Matt Kane, Dave Dickey Big Band, the 442s, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week's lineup of jazz and creative music in St. Louis features visits from two different drummers leading quartets playing original music, plus the return of a well-known touring act with a revised lineup of players, several shows by local big bands, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, the Route 66 Jazz Orchestra returns to Kirkwood Station Brewing Company; Cabaret Project St. Louis presents their monthly “Open Stage" at the Tavern of Fine Arts; and the Sidney Street ...

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Coming Soon: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Andre Delano, Alan Evans' Playonbrother

Coming Soon: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Andre Delano, Alan Evans' Playonbrother

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

From StLJN's various in-boxes, word of three more upcoming shows of interest to St. Louis fans of jazz and creative music: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey will return to St. Louis for their second show here this year at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, June 21 at The Blind Tiger at Sutton Place, 7376 Manchester Rd in Maplewood. JFJO, now a three-piece with keyboardist and founder Brian Haas, lap steel guitarist Chris Combs, and drummer Josh Raymer, last played here in January at ...

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Recording

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey To Release Limited Edition Live Lp "Millions: Live In Denver" On Record Store Day

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey To Release Limited Edition Live Lp "Millions: Live In Denver" On Record Store Day

Source: Calabro Music

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey celebrate their 20th Anniversary in 2014 with the Record Store Day exclusive, limited edition LP, Millions: Live In Denver. Recorded over two sold out nights at the esteemed Denver, CO jazz venue Dazzle this past November, JFJO presented classic material from throughout their history that hadn't been performed live in years, including “Muskogee Smalls," “Tae Parade" and “Grub Ridge Stomp." Defined by consistent evolution and change over the course of two decades, 21 albums, and countless ...

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Jazz This Week: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Jazz at Lincoln Center Quartet, and More

Jazz This Week: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Jazz at Lincoln Center Quartet, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

Here's a look at some of the most noteworthy jazz and creative music performances happening this week in and around St. Louis: Tonight, the Jazz at Holmes series of free concerts at Washington University presents “A Tribute to Jim Hall" with guitarists William Lenihan & Vincent Varvel; and it's the monthly “Experimental Arts Open Mic Night" with live improvised music at the Tavern of Fine Arts. Tomorrow night, four musicians who are part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra - ...

Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week, let's look at some videos featuring Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, who are coming back to St. Louis to perform next Saturday, February 1 at The Demo. Formed in Tulsa, OK in 1994, JFJO are celebrating their 20th year as a band with, among other things, a set at the recently completed Winter Jazzfest in NYC, and having a craft beer named in their honor by Oklahoma’s Prairie Artisan Ales. (They last appeared here in St. Louis in 2011 ...

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Interview

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's Chris Combs Interviewed at All About Jazz

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's Chris Combs Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: 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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Recording

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - The Race Riot Suite (2011)

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - The Race Riot Suite (2011)

Source: Something Else!

The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is a band that's clearly relished keeping people guessing—down to the fictional person in the band name—and while jazz has always been the starting point for their music, it's anyone's guess where the band would take it from one album to the next. We last visited JFJO more than three years ago when Lil Tae Rides Again was the fresh new dish, and there's been two albums since then. The third one just went on ...

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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Fall Tour Dates, New Video

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Fall Tour Dates, New Video

Source: JamBase

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey have announced Fall tour dates in support of new album The Race Riot Suite, which is out August 31. For a taste of what to expect, check out out the live clips below of the band performing “Black Wall Street" and “Grandfather's Gun" off the new album. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Tour Dates

07/30/11 Sat Freetulsa! Grounds Tulsa, OK 08/13/11 Sat Simmer Fest Tahlequah, OK 08/26/11 Fri The Deli Norman, OK 09/16/11 Fri Crosstown Station Kansas ...

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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey to Release "Race Riot Suite"

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey to Release "Race Riot Suite"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki

Available August 30 on Vinyl, CD & MP3 from Kinnara Records/Royal Potato Family Featuring Brian Haas (piano), Chris Combs (lap steel guitar), Jeff Harshbarger (upright bass), Josh Raymer (drums) plus special guests Steven Bernstein (trumpet, slide trumpet), Peter Apfelbaum (tenor & baritone saxophone), Jeff Coffin (tenor saxophone), Mark Southerland (tenor saxophone), and Matt Leland (trombone) “When this quartet of proud Oklahomans turns its attention to one of its state's most shameful events, the musical results are electrifying and devastating...In short, ...

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