Root 70 - Nonplace Designer Grooves

Root 70 - Heaps Dub

Now this is a reversal: instead of a jazz band having its tunes reworked, spindled, shredded, and aborted by remixers, here the members of a bona fide jazz quartet take the liberty of rearranging and recording their favorite tunes from Flanger and Burnt Friedman & the Nu Dub Players using an acoustic jazz approach. But that's only part of the twist: after all of the mighty chart arrangements and harmonic possibilities are worked out for trombone, saxophone, bass, and drums, they get dubbed over in a final mix by Burnt Friedman himself! Uh-huh, jazz mischief of the highest order.
sparse, tight, rhythmically compelling future noir jazz.
(allmusic)



(2006) 320

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