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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'
"An incredibly impressive third release from a deliriously talented group." - Dave Wayne, 'JazzReview.com'
"Tremendously fun to listen to...pan-genre experimentalism that defies pigeon-holing" - Tim Niland, 'All About Jazz'
"[Lundbom's playing] will challenge the listener to think differently...a genre defying, barrier pushing album." - Dr. Matt Warnock, 'Guitar International'
"Hardbop + Zeppelin + Schoenberg" - Dave Madden, 'SLUG Magazine'
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"Since 2003, [JL&BVC] have been crashing and slashing through the jazz-rock idiom, often lying on the perimeter of the avant-garde spectrum. ...the music is often hard-edged and chockfull of off-kilter innuendoes and ballsy soloing excursions. ...Lundbom's intense phrasings and mind-altering solo spots can exude a semblance of systematic paranoia or command the ensemble like a diesel-powered automaton, wielding a mass of destruction through a heavily populated metropolis."
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“Lundbom dissects and reassembles jazz-rock fusion, grafting on bits of post-Albert Ayler free jazz and hard bop as he sees fit. ...'Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers!' represents a major step forward for JL&BVC. This is a band that, like MOPDTK, constantly takes musical risks and consistently comes up with inspired and spirited, all-original, poly-stylistic 21st Century jazz.”
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"'Quavers!' [sic] starts on the wild side and stays there... Big Five Chord isn't afraid to go for the throat if the music calls for it... This is high energy music, combining somewhat straight ahead foundations with a rock execution, and hopefully Lundbom will start getting more attention for his fresh perspective, both as a writer and player."
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"Ensemble music of a definite currency. Adventurous, a bit electric, loping, freestyling and rocking along with some very interesting lines and excellent solos from the principals... Lundbom has a definitely-subtly-quirky sense of what goes with what... What else? Well it's engaging music. That should be enough to wet your whistle."
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"These young musicians push their instruments and their music to the edge. 'Quavers...' aurally punches the listener from note one. ...a blending of avant-garde, a la Dolphy and John Cage, plus '70s and '80s fusion. ...All the musicians are bold, young and accomplished...the grooves, as on 'Meat Without Feet,' are infectious."
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"A wide-open mindset and unique instrumentation of the band provides a lot of depth to the music. ...Lundbom’s post-Sonny Sharrock guitar style and raunchy saxophone are welded to a killer backbeat, building music for the booty and the mind. Sort of like if Pharoah Sanders and Sonny Sharrock took a break from late 60's spiritual free-jazz to cut a massive funk record. ...A tremendously fun album to listen to, Lundbom continually challenge the listener and each other and succeed to builds a piece of pan-genre experimentalism that defies pigeon-holing."
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