The new EP 'One Day in Brooklyn' is now available everywhere!You can purchase the new EP on iTunes, Amazon, through Royal Potato Family, as well asjfjo.com.
Tune in to WBGO at 6:30pm EST this evening to take a listen to some very special takes on some of the new material recorded at WBGO in July for The Checkout. A
description of JFJO's new sound for those yet to hear the latest
incarnation is in order -- this is after all a band once described by
Signal To Noiseas having "a breadth and vision nearly untouched in modern jazz except
by the likes of
Wayne Shorter and Bill Frisell." With the addition of
Combs on lap steel and Hayes on acoustic bass, JFJO has perhaps
invented its own genre:
red dirt jazz, equal parts earthy and nimble,
pastoral and sweeping, elegant and rollicking. The quartet taps into
their birthright, drawing upon "The Tulsa Sound" born of hometown
heroes like JJ Cale and Leon Russell. These roots grow up into a jazz
foundation that's built firmly upon the likes of Duke Ellington and
Thelonious Monk.
Speaking of Monk, you can take a listen to JFJO's cover of Four in One as heard on the new EP by visiting the music player on the front page of JFJO.COM