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Unlike the Classical player, the jazz artist must achieve a technique that uncovers the self, that answers the question that Ellison says is the question of American art: Who am I?
We are musically restless. Sometimes we feel unsettled, unprepared, uneasy – maybe a sense of searching is a more appropriate (positive?) way of putting it. There are times when we think this is a good thing, other times – maybe not.
Many of our favorite musicians possess this quality of searching and evolution in their music. We are fascinated by musicians who started out playing a certain way, but evolved their style, sound, vocabulary, and musical identities. Keep pushing, keep moving, keep creating.
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Press & Media
“This is one of the best hip-hop-jazz collaborations I’ve ever heard.”
“Nearly as impressive, these highly appealing tunes are improvised from start to finish, revealing jazzers with deep vocabularies responsive to whatever the moment demands.”
-Shepherd Express, Kevin Lynch
“More than just “Alive,” these four tracks exemplify live music in its most liberating and adventurous form, from the alien ambience of “The Beholder” to Breiwick’s dizzying trumpet improvisations and knowsthetimes’ pulse-quickening turntable skills on “Heatwave”, with magnetic verses from rapper CRASHprez throughout the EP.”
-Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Rife with spontaneity and elegance, this KASE record is a perfect foot to start on with the New Year.”
“Classics meet the ahead-of-its-time as conventional jazz elements mesh seamlessly with modern electronica.”
-Breaking and Entering
“…the album crackles with the spontaneity unique to a live jazz set — you can sense the musicians playing off each other, reading each other, clearing out space for each other at times and claiming it for themselves at others.”
-Evan Rytlewski, Radio Milwaukee
