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improvised and jazz-related music

Perhaps Five Nights in the Midwest should be likened to an extended director’s cut of a film, or maybe even more correctly the dailies or raw, unedited footage viewed as the film is being made, That’s because this massive three volume set of seven extended tracks is presented exactly as recorded during the Stein/Smith/Shead trio’s five-day tour of that same number of Midwestern cities. Veterans of this sort of anything-goes free form improvisation, the trio… Read More