Author: Jon Lundbom

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Brent Black, ‘Bop-N-Jazz’ 01/18/14

“Take everything you learned in music theory and forget it…Jon Lundbom is charting a new course for modern jazz! Getting bogged down by convention simply is not their wheelhouse…[Big Five Chord is] one of the most inventive yet hard to pin down bands over the last two decades. …This is post modern jazz on steroids. No bullshit. An all star band well on it’s way to charting an incredibly successful path for others to follow. ‘Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers!’ is an absolute must for any library!”

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Brent Black, ‘Bop-N-Jazz’ 01/07/14

“Full contact gorilla jazz! About as subtle as a plane crash and twice as exciting! Take everything you know and love about the romantic notion of modern jazz guitar and become a blank slate. Jon Lundbom not only reinvents the hard bop idea of swing but fuels it with an edgy intensity that will set your hair on fire while your brain attempts to play catch up with the blistering pace set by this all star band of heavy weights. …Easily the pick of the litter of new releases for 2014.“

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Chris Spector, ‘Midwest Record’ 12/27/13

“It’s like he’s trying to make his girl friend shut up and let him hang out with his pals all night, night after night. That’s why there’s wican [sic] songs, sly hat tips to Neko Case and other stuff interspersed among the left leaning, progressive jazz that’s long left the wannabes in the dust. With the guitar out front, angular jazz is on parade in fine form as it wends it’s way down this jazzy, garden path. Wild stuff for left leaning ears that really know how to take it. Well done.”

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Mark Corotto, ‘All About Jazz’ 11/06/13

★★★★
“The music rocks-out [sic] without leaning on jazz fusion as a crutch, and pushes past jazz tradition by plugging into deep grooves. …The combination of electric guitar, electric piano and sympathetic horn arrangements maintains the music’s energy and ingenuity. …Lundbom’s compositions push the music toward groove steady sounds, then pull it into jazz with odd time signatures and a taste for multiple changes.”

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