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'REVIEW: Tweed Funk, 'Come Together,' Tweed Tone Records
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'REVIEW: The Oatmeal Jazz Combo, 'Instant Oats,' LGY Records
Digest your Oatmeal Jazz Combo, children, it's good for you, especially 'Instant Oats' (LGY Records). This adventurous quintet started out just for fun in 2009 at Stony Brook University in New York and is now on its fifth CD. Dig how they will play anything and everything including the closing "Transformers" theme. -
'REVIEW: Michael Dease, 'Father Figure,' Posi-Tone Records
Michael Dease cuts loose with a wildly swingin' post-boppin' assemblage of talent on vibraphone, piano, bass, drums and two alto saxophones wherein the trombone man serves as 'Father Figure' to some crazily talented youngsters on originals and well-picked covers, or, as we like to say in the music-listenin' business: discreeto pickos.