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Mystic Out-Bop Review, free improvisation trio based out of Portland, Maine, has been performing in the New England area since 2000. The trio is: Kit Demos on bass, Chico Valentine on drums and Alonzo Holliday on sax. Upcoming Shows
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We are always on the lookout for out-jazz and experimental sound artist to come to Portland to play we book shows at a few local venues. Interested? Contact us. |
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What is Out-Bop? Out-bop is a coined term meant to point in two directions. One to the past and to bebop and one to the future and out/outside-beyond music. Bebop is the resurgent modern jazz movement of the late 40's early 50s that was active among a small cadre of musician who longed to make music that was vital and new. They felt no urge to appease popular sentiment, actually quite the opposite, as they purposefully made music to challenge their audience. Bebop was urban and gritty and streetwise. It was also technical and difficult to play but for the initiated. It's a curious historical note that jazz critics of the time maligned these innovators who are now lionized by the current jazz establishment. You won't find the technical musical notation of bebop in our music (except in occasional quotations or in mutant form) but we very much aspire to the energy that inspired that original art form. They created because they were driven by their artistry and kinship and commitment to a new musical form. The "out" of out-bop can be taken as a variety of flavors. It can be Outrageous or Outsider. But mostly it refers to the avant-garde which by definition is always ahead of the mainstream and hence outside of it. Out-Bop, put together is music that reflects on jazz improvisation roots,not in an academic-repertory way, but in an artist-energy way and throws it into the flames of the future where is incenderized in an air of mystery and awe. In the 60's it was The New Thing or Fire music today it is Out-Bop.
