Here is a band that plays by the seat of its pants
"We're coming out of a jazz tradition and letting it reflect current
musical trends," says pianist Brian Haas about Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey.
"The approach that we've chosen to take, and that MMW has chosen to
take, is something I don't really run into too often, where you're coming
at it from a totally improvisational standpoint. Which means sometimes you
get lucky and it totally smokes, and sometimes when you're improvising,
you kind of fall on your ass. I don't run into many bands taking those kinds
of risks, where you just hop on stage and go. But with Jacob Fred, I'd say
98 percent of the stuff is totally improvised. And with Welcome Home
we just got extremely lucky. We basically gave ourselves two nights in a
small Tulsa club to get it done. And boom - it happened, thank God." |
