We return to Colorado in October with The Dead Kenny G's & Mike Dillon's GoGo Jungle!
Some special new September dates have been announced with "The Life Effect" (featuring Brad and Andrew Barr of The Slip, Reed Mathis of JFJO, and Jim Hobbes of Fully Celebrated Orchestra)!
Check out the August issue of Relix (in print or via free digital subscription) for a review of the 6/19/07 Regatta Bar show in Boston this past June. We have also made this show's SBD recording available for free download via bt.etree.org Enjoy!
Check the Tour Dates Page! This Just In: September tour will kick off with a week residency in New Orleans,LA!
After NOLA we head east for dates with Bjorkestra. Stay tuned for the remainder of the fall dates to be announced shortly.
Some performances with The Bjorkestra in September just announced...
After the Burlington Jazz Fest, we said farewell to Jason Smart, our beloved drummer for nearly 6 years. With this departure, we welcome young Tulsa prodigy Josh Raymer to our trio.
More June shows announced for the Northeast including 3 performances with special guest Steve Kimock.
Selections from our peformance at the 2006 Berlin Jazz Fest will be featured on XM Radio's Beyond Jazz this week: Weds. May 9th at 11 PM Eastern/8 PM Pacific and Sunday, May 13th at 8 PM EST/5 PM PST.
Brian was on the cover of Oklahoma Magazine. He was selected as one of the state's top 40 under 40.
On Feb. 4th, from 10 to midnight, JFJO's live performance from Bremen, Germany and a subsequent interview with Brian and Reed will be broadcast on Radio Bremen.
Thanks to everyone's support for making 2006 such a special year.
"A breadth and vision nearly untouched in modern jazz except by the likes of Wayne Shorter and Bill Frisell." - Signal to Noise
"It swings, it sways, but the jazz trio form in their hands has an almost primitive, inside-your-head, idiosyncratic quality to it that suggests the three are truly one." - Downbeat Magazine
"Delicious postmodern jazzitude from the Tulsa-based piano trio." 4 of 5 stars. - Mojo (UK)
""Produced by the sleepless and titular Tae Meyulks, 'Lil Tae Rides Again' bathes in electro-blackness, a blood-red island in a skewed fantasy. Gorgeous or beastly, it sticks to your shivering bones." - Under the Radar
"Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey weave the kind of impressionistic, imaginative new jazz that shatters any kind of identity, much less categories and classifications." - Chicago Sun Times
"The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey step through the looking glass to emerge from the shadows of their disparate rock and jazz influences with something wholly fresh. Producer Tae Meyulks transforms these sessions into a sonic wonderland."
- The Absolute Sound "JFJO burns with a quiet intensity rather than dramatically explodes. The musicians play with a coiled looseness, improvising with quicksilver yet deliberate force. You can hear the band's power and inventiveness creatively eroding structure, and the tension produced from that is exhilarating. If JFJO isn't moving jazz forward, it is shifting its center of gravity interestingly askew."
- Jazz Times "In my humble opinion, one of the most fascinating trios currently walking around on God's green earth." - SlagwerkKrant (NL)
