Chicago Underground is the handle used by cornetist Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor. The final designation can be Duo, Orchestra, or, as here, Trio--depending (naturally) on the number of people joining in. What's more, the lineup for Chicago Underground Trio's Flamethrower is actually a quartet that features bassist Noel Kupersmith and guitarist Jeff Parker. Confused? All four are part of the busy circle of musicians who move between the postbop, freeform jazz circles and the Windy City's shape-shifting postrock scene. The music on Flamethrower is often thoughtful, filled with melodic, sometimes sonorous phrasing. Keeping things from getting too chill, the group creates a backdrop of free-jazz musings and filigrees, odd electronic loops, and the pitter-patter of percussion. Parker and Mazurek do much of the lead work, but seldom intersect, opting to take turns instead. Like artists working with splashes of sound, the four create impressionistic aural works that are nothing less than magical. --Tad Hendrickson
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Jazz Music:
- For Adults Only [Live]
- Gemini
- Gettin' Together! [Hybrid SACD]
- Glenn Miller [Import]
- Good Times
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits of the Big Band Era
- Groove Grease [Import]
- Hartford, 1953 [Live]
- I'll See You in My Dreams
Jazz Music
Still Groovin' [Enhanced] [Import]
Music: Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971 Original Broadway Cast) [Soundtrack]
Where There's a Man [Import] [Original recording remastered]
When I Grow Too Old Dream [Import]