Sonic Liberation 8 Re-imagines Loft Jazz and Chamber Music

From The Key:

Living in New York City between 1976 and 1985, Kevin Diehl found himself in the midst of the fertile loft jazz scene. During that now-legendary period, some of the most influential and forward-thinking musicians of the last half-century gathered together in Soho, forging a new sound building on the 1960s avant-garde and asserting their independence from major record labels and nightclubs. They were a group fueled by the communitarian spirit of organizations like Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and St. Louis’ Black Artists Group (BAG). During the period that Diehl lived in New York, these rich hybrid musics cross-pollinated with one another and planted the seeds that would grow into his long-running group Sonic Liberation Front once he returned to Philadelphia.