{"id":39110,"date":"2015-10-28T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T22:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=39110"},"modified":"2015-12-23T04:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T10:03:28","slug":"jacob-fred-jazz-odyssey-the-battle-for-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/10\/28\/jacob-fred-jazz-odyssey-the-battle-for-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: The Battle For Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, a three-piece group out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a jazz group at their core. But many would consider\u00a0them unclassifiable. They have dipped if not completely immersed themselves into experimental hip-hop, funk, and electronic phases as well as almost every explorable subset of\u00a0jazz over their 20+ years as an entity. \u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Battle For Earth, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a live recording that marks their 27th release as a group, sees JFJO continue and refine an exquisite mix of all of these genres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> O<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39113 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_31-exl_1.jpg\" alt=\"rsz_31-exl_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_31-exl_1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_31-exl_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_31-exl_1-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>n <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Battle For The Earth\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the trio slides back into their instrumental roots while reimagining the tracks of their 2014 release, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worker. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All but three of the tracks on this album are pulled from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worker.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The original tracks have a sound crafted heavily with synthesizers and fuzzy, grungy guitar effects. The trio tones down the electronic influence and swaps their style for a more typical contemporary yet distinctly acid jazz sound. They still create that special sort of chaos they are known for while letting the smoothness of a grand piano and an (occasionally) effect-less guitar emerge. Even with this reimagined instrumentation from founder and keyboardist Brian Haas and guitarist Chris Combs, they have no problem holding a cohesive sound, in part because \u00a0of the unifying drummer, Josh Raymer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notable tracks from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Battle For Earth <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">include \u201cNew Bird,\u201d distinctive for its impressive piano riffs and psychdelic Scofield-esque guitar, and \u201cBounce.\u201d Perhaps the most experimental acid jazz track (besides the intense \u201cHey Hey NSA\u201d), this track includes complex rhythmic work from Raymer, Haas, and Combs as well as trippy staccato stylings from Raymer and Combs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you dig this, check out their 2011 release <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Race Riot Suite. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s one of the most intense jazz albums to have the pleasure of listening to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like: John Scofield, <b>SST7<\/b>, Jazzanova, Thievery Corporation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: 5 (Betamax), 10 (Bounce), 2 (Hey Hey Nsa), 7 (Appropriation Song)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: None<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by\u00a0Kayci Lineberger on 10\/28\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its 27th release in 20 years, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey brings trippy, intricate acid jazz to your ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1637,"featured_media":39113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,4,3235,3230],"tags":[3856,3456,2732,3855],"class_list":["post-39110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jazz-rotation","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","tag-acid-jazz","tag-jacob-fred-jazz-odyssey","tag-kayci-lineberger","tag-the-battle-for-earth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rsz_31-exl_1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}