from: All About Jazz

JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY
Lil Tae Rides Again
HYENA Records (APRIL 2008)

By Chris May

With Lil' Tae Rides Again, their first studio album since The Sameness Of Difference (Hyena Records, 2005), the mercurially inclined Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey have taken their biggest step so far into the unknown, re-inventing themselves in the process, at least for this project. The band gave unfettered creative control of the finished disc to their Tulsa neighbor, producer and electronicist Tae Meyulks, allowing him to deconstruct and reassemble the raw tracks as the spirit took him.

The result is an album that takes JFJO out of The Bad Plus/Medeski Martin & Wood territory that was their most recent approximate stamping ground, into an area that owes as much to electronica and ambient music, and which echoes to the sound of tinkling bells and glockenspiels. Lil' Tae Rides Again rocks, chugs and boogies—buffed and burnished by Meyulks' mellifluous post-production—but it also trips the light fantastic like the band has never done before (click here to read more...).

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