https://soundcloud.c...-clive-lowe-the
Broken beat luminary with allegedly serious jazz training/skills meets highly competent very traditional big band with top-notch-if-generic soloists. Broken Beat's roots in "spiritual jazz" get highlighted, the jazz big band's roots as dance orchestra get rejuvenated. Good things happen, everybody wins, and probably nobody will like it because it's got drum machines, it's got a kit drummer, it's too commercial, it's go no vocals and long solos, it's a total contrivance, it's not really any one bag, it's not jazz, it's that damn jazz shit. Etc. Something here to piss EVERYBODY off.
Nevertheless, if the idea of the Music Inc. Big Band playing for a roomful of sweaty 21st Century dancing people gives you cause to consider an impish grin, this is the album for you. I'm digging the LOL shit out of it myself.