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"Pure jazz with rock attitude...Yes, Big Five Chord do accomplish jazz; a very new jazz." - Mark Corroto, 'All About Jazz'
"Hardbop + Zeppelin + Schoenberg" - Dave Madden, 'SLUG Magazine'
"Forward-thinking, boundary-stretching jazz" - Eric Snider, 'Creative Loafing'
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"Lundbom is an intriguing composer and an even more idiosyncratic guitar player, writing songs that have wonderfully odd melodic quirks and playing solos with a tone that wouldn't be out of place in country music. Good country music. ...[Lundbom's] crisp execution is spellbinding. ...Since ['Accomplish Jazz'] came out in December, it's still eligible to wind up on 2010 year end lists, where it clearly belongs."
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“Few modern-jazz guitarists today are able to blend harmonic, melodic and structural ambiguity with such a cohesive voice as Lundbom achieves in his compositions... Lundbom’s guitar solos, like his compositions, will challenge the listener to think differently about the instrument and the genre...highly creative and inventive solos... A genre defying, barrier pushing album.”
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"They [the new young lions] intend to grab jazz by the lapel and shake it with extreme prejudice. A prime example of the new young lions is the band Big Five Chord, the creation of guitarist Jon Lundbom...Lundbom creates music that is neither fusion, jazz core, nor rock. It is pure jazz with rock attitude...Lundbom's writing presents a skewed perspective and a dissonant swing that pieces together Ornette Coleman's harmolodics and an incessant pulse...Yes, Big Five Chord do accomplish jazz; a very new jazz."
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"Lundbom doesn't fit the boxes that music is so conveniently placed in. His music is just as free as it's funky. It's both old-fashioned and ultramodern, avant-garde and mainstream. Simply put, it's good music, which invites active participation. Accomplished jazz indeed."
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"Lundbom's muscular jazz-rock outfit Big Five Chord shows off its supple side on a new release, 'Accomplish Jazz.' But don't be surprised to hear the band's loping, funky grooves give way to noisy catharsis from the leader and sax firebrand Jon Irabagon."
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