“A boundary-shattering shot of adrenaline that screws with your head and messes with your soul...[Big Five Chord] reconfigure what you think you know about jazz and dump the entrails overboard. ...[Big Five Chord] is a maddening catharsis. It releases all of the pent-up 'properness' of the jazz scene, that bit of bullshit that sinks discussion of the art form to the very pretentious and the very boring, and resurrects the bones of truly free music to come up and play with the rest of us schlubs. ...For those tired of the same old reliable jazz music, this here's the cure.”

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