AlasNoAxis, King Froopy and Medeski at Summerstage Reivewed

From NYTimes.com:

Saturday night’s free concert at Central Park Summerstage amounted to three and a half hours of intelligent groove, informed by jazz but rarely beholden to it, with improvisation as a binding but nonidiomatic force. With three bands on the bill — Medeski Martin & Wood, Josh Roseman and the King Froopy All-Stars, and Jim Black’s AlasNoAxis — there were innumerable on-the-fly decisions about timbre and color, rhythm and counterrhythm. Each set was impressive in its own way, but there was continuity among them.

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