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Music: Jazz/Blues Fieldwork

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Fieldwork are masters of their genre, making intricately woven, unrelenting free jazz. Pianist Vijay Iyer draws from his parents' native India — traditional South Indian Carnatic music and the jazz/rock fusion that was popular in the Subcontinent in '70s. Iyer treats the ivories like a percussion instrument, which compliments Elliot Humberto Kavee off-kilter drum work, which incorporates a hint of hip-hop. Saxaphonist Steve Lehman weaves frantic melody lines that leap dexterously between and over the beats. Though as challenging as any band that regularly graces the Stone, Fieldwork are also as accessible as a populist rock band with hooks and lines non-jazzheads can grab onto.

– Gerry Mak

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