TNJT has hit the big (band) time with pics and links on The Industrial Jazz Group News page. It's quite an honor to have two of your pictures rammed together by an artist like Andrew. And I don't think we've heard the last from this very cool dude and band leader.

And he's turned us on to Matthew Irwin's review of the IJG's latest "The Star Chamber" in our very own San Diego CityBEAT. More than a few quotable quotes,

"There is a cinematic chaos about the bands latest album, The Star Chamber. These powerful and dramatic movements set up gaps for wild and far-reaching solos that know to come home after dark. And like a great drug film, Chamber peaks with a swimming-in-water-as-symbolic-rebirth scene, followed by renewed vigor and humor. "

Oh so correct. And he extracts a bold quote from Andrew, in a Jazz world where improvisation is sometime taken (and I'm at fault here too) as the end all, be all,

"[base "]Improv itself is not the main point of the record, but another tool, another element of the composition.[per thou]

And Matthew lays down thought-full words to how Andrew might answer (and seemingly achievew with "Chamber"), to the "What is Jazz?" question,

"Durkin might answer that it is a unity between composer and musician, in which the outcome is both moving and stimulating. "

Now if I could only rams pictures, music, and words together as well as Andrew and Matthew do!
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