Best Jazz Band (That Isn’t a Jazz Band)

Even though he loves the work of many great jazz musicians, Concurrence co-founder and dynamic electric bassist Greg Bryant maintains that Concurrence isn’t a jazz band. That’s because he and co-founder (and Alabama Shakes touring keyboardist) Paul Horton resist being placed in a restrictive idiomatic box. Concurrence has a firm grounding in experimental, edgy jazz, and improvisation is at the core of everything they do. But their recordings and performances (with mainstream jazz vocalists, spoken-word artists and rappers alike) show them drawing on multiple groove-oriented sources to focus on something they aptly call “black creative music.” RON WYNN

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