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	Adventurous Chicago jazz trio pays homage in homecoming shows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM), which was founded in the 1960s to challenge the limits of what was considered music, jazz, and even instruments, could be the focal point around which this web spins.
		The Chicago Underground is rooted in a dynamic jazz duo, but expands to make way for the use of other musicians, instruments, and electronic fusion.
		Drummer Chad Taylor, who is one-half of the Chicago Underground Duo, and has played with the late Malachi Favors and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, weaves craftily and diversely in and out, and in between the solos of Roberts and Abrams.
	maroon.uchicago.edu /voices/articles/2004/06/08/adventurous_chicago_.php (1063 words)

	Outward Introspection
		It's no secret that several bands in Chicago's avant-pop scene, such as Gastr del Sol, Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, Trans Am and Chicago Underground Duo, have been blurring the borders of jazz, musique concrete, dub and bossa nova.
		With the occasional addition of guitarist Parker, the band becomes the Chicago Underground Trio and the tunes hum with minimalist melodies and a shadowy sensibility reminiscent of 1950s West Coast jazz.
		Still, it is his own music with Chicago Underground Duo that has a unique balance of dark and light, bold and somber.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/031199/mus.jazz.shtml (546 words)

	Chicago Underground Duo - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		At the Lunar Cabaret that evening, two Chicago Underground Orchestra members were beginning to hone their skills as a duo during what they would later describe as a magical evening.
		Axis and Alignment is the seventh release by the collective known as The Chicago Underground, and third release as a Duo.
		The Duo’s debut, 12 Degrees of Freedom was recorded live in Chicago and is a stark and minimal affair-a definite free jazz affair, but with their second record, the highly adventurous Synesthesia the two opened themselves up to an endless amount of possibilities.
	music.download.com /chicagoundergroundduo/3600-8469_32-100388181.html (944 words)

	Chicago Underground Duo: Axis and Alignment - PopMatters Music Review
		The Chicago Underground is a shape-shifting collective whose members play in various size ensembles.
		At the core of the group is the Duo, comprised of percussionist Chad Taylor and cornetist/electronics man Rob Mazurek.
		Underground Duo is a bit more abstract and less overtly political in their approach, but the musical approach is just as wide open and offers an update on the trademark AACM sound.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/chicagoundergroundduo-axis.shtml (1089 words)

	Chicago Underground Duo \| Synesthia
		Chicago’s jazz and new music scene seems free from the heavy peer pressure foisted upon the New York Downtown crowd.
		This openness is evident on the second release by the Chicago Underground Duo.
		The Duo comprises cornetist Rob Mazurek and percussionist Chad Taylor.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r0600_095.htm (307 words)

	The Stranger - Music - Feature - A Strange Attraction
		By virtue of their hard, sensual clarity and a refusal to sentimentalize or pander, they deftly avoid the threat of solipsism that often yawns before ambitious music that is primarily about music.
		This more open-ended approach provides Chicago Underground Duo a way to sidestep the usual jazz format and the safety of labels: Swing, post-bop, hard-bop, and avant-garde coalesce, mutate, and fall apart in the course of a listening.
		The genre-defying electronic jazz of the Chicago Underground Duo is a strange attractor in the chaos of experimental sound, finding magnetic pull and beauty in the swirling music of boundaries collapsing.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=5689 (769 words)

	Chicago Underground Duo - Axis and Alignment (Thrill Jockey)
		After a ton of incredible Chicago Underground albums, in their various forms (Duo, Trio, Quartet, Orchestra), I approach each one with increasing trepidation.
		Good portions of this record are not as progressive (read: difficult) as some other Chicago Underground releases; more structured, focused songwriting, not as free.
		The Chicago Underground (both specifically this group, but, really, also the larger collective of Chicago post-rock and fakejazz musicians with whom they are associated) has more perfectly accomplished this than any other musician of which I am currently aware.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2002/cud2.shtml (448 words)

	That Toddlin' Town
		Eventually, Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor were ready and the Chicago Underground Duo kicked off with the space jazz cracker “Blue Sparks from Her, and the Scent of Lighning” from Synethesia.
		Chicago is well known as a melting pot of musical styles and movements.
		Taylor forms one half of the Chicago Underground Duo, though occasionally one-third when Sam Prekop, from the Sea and Cake, sits in.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/donut/music_x_chicago.htm (1046 words)

	Chicago Underground Trio - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		The mercurial and improvisatory Chicago Underground debuted as the Chicago Underground Orchestra in February of 1998 with Playground.
		Though the term orchestra is usually reserved for ensembles with ten or more musicians, the Chicago Underground Orchestra were actually a quintet (Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, Chris Lopes, Sarah P. Smith, and Chad Taylor).
		The duo, percussionist Chad Taylor and cornetist Rob Mazurek, released Twelve Degrees of Freedom on October 20, 1998.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,733709,00.html (449 words)

	Rob Mazurek - Future Sounds and Abstract Sonics (interview)
		During the waning weeks of the 20th Century, the left coast of the United States was treated to a series of performances by the Chicago Underground Duo--a progressive jazz-influenced cornet, drums and electronic combo--and Isotope 217--whose music is a grab bag of influences including funk, electronic, jazz, rock and whatever else you can find.
		I would have made the assumption that in Chicago Underground there would be more freedom as to where you could take the music because there are fewer people involved.
		We have the Orchestra record, two Trio records, two Duo records, that's five, and there's going to be a new Chicago Underground Quartet record coming out in April.
	www.fakejazz.com /interviews/maziv.shtml (2633 words)

	Junkmedia: An interview with Chicago Undergrounder Rob Mazurek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Since that initial release, the Underground has released two albums as a duo, two as a trio and one, their most recent, as a quartet.
		The Underground project has done much to challenge the parameters of jazz, all the while gaining listeners from the post-rock crowd.
		A new Chicago Underground Duo album is slated for release later this year, and the group will also tour with Stereolab this fall.
	www.junkmedia.org /?i=18 (910 words)

	Amazon.com: Chicago Underground Quartet: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is not really the "debut" of the Chicago Underground Quartet, as Jeff Parker was practically a full fledged member of the Chicago Underground "Trio" on their last album--Flamethrower.
		Chicago Underground's approach to the marriage of jazz and electronics remains sensible--rather than create "electronic jazz" relying heavily on technology, they incorporate the electronics tastefully and subtly, treating all sound equally and being refreshingly un-fascinated with electronics for their own sake.
		This is the Chicago Underground release to get if you want something closer to Tortoise or Isotope 217 and further away from Miles Davis and the post-bop that is more typical of the three Chicago Underground Duo releases and the two Trio releases.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JCIB?v=glance (1232 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		In an all-Thrill Jockey show, the Double Door (a venue that at last seems to be moving into its potential) hosts the bleep-blurp-bloop sounds of Mouse on Mars, which recently released its fifth full-length record, "Niun Niggung." Mouse on Mars is, however, a known entity; if computer hiccups are your thing, go nuts.
		Chicago bluesman Eddie C. Campbell turns 61 on April 29, and Blues Etc. (1124 West Belmont, (773)525-8989) is throwing him a birthday party.
		Calling themselves the Chicago 7, a collection of local hip hop acts that are featured on an ASCAP-sponsored compilation, "The Whole World is Watching," assembled to protest the House of Blues' refusal to book an ASCAP-sponsored industry showcase.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago2/337.html (646 words)

	Delusions of Adequacy Reviews - Chicago Underground Duo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The triangle is under-rated and under-appreciated in the post rock scene, but the Chicago Underground Duo (CUD) are here to rescue it and the cornet from instrumental obscurity.
		It's here that the CUD come closest to sounding like the old masters of free jazz and fusion, Coltrane and Davis, and that's what makes it all the more pleasurable to listen to.
		From Chicago comes this vibrant recording from Chicago Underground Duo.
	www.adequacy.net /reviews/c/chicagoundergroundduo.shtml (614 words)

	Amazon.com: 12 Degrees of Freedom: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Chicago Underground Duo is a direct offshoot of cornetist Robert Mazurek's larger free-bop ensemble, the Chicago Underground Orchestra.
		Sad to say, the Chicago Underground Duo is no longer...Rob Manzurek has moved on to "greener pastures" in New York I think.
		This particular duo is Chad Taylor on percussion and vibes with Rob Mazurek on cornet (mainly.)Mazurek marries the bebop heritage to Morton Feldman, and their baby is beautiful.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000DF6U?v=glance (935 words)

	Chicago Underground Duo: Synesthesia: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That's because the Chicago post-rock scene has played itself out in a seemingly endless series of permutations, resulting in a vast number of collaborative efforts.
		Whereas other Chicago collaborations have been virtually seamless, Synesthesia can, for the most part, be broken down according to the influences of its two creators.
		Before there was the Chicago Underground Duo, there was the Chicago Underground Trio.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/chicago-underground-duo/synesthesia.shtml (700 words)

	New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Rolling Stones, or even their grandchildren, the Chicago Underground Duo is not.
		This evening is treated as an entity within itself, not a series of events: hence, you could claim that the Duo’s version of "Blue Sparks From Her, and the Scent of Lightning" (from last year’s Synesthesia) is particularly askew tonight, but you could equally claim it is a whole different song.
		There is nothing conventional about the structures here: except the Duo is adhering to a convention far stricter in its own way than the simplest of Ramones melodies.
	www.nypress.com /14/27/music/livedates2.cfm (317 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Chicago Style (April 18 - April 24, 2002)
		The serendipitous tendency of skilled Chicago musicians to sit in on each others' many projects has yielded two noteworthy subgenres from that city's vaunted experimental and free jazz movements, its venerable indie-rock scene, and its dominant roots revival sound--that of Bloodshot Records' "insurgent country" stable.
		The Underground Duo (occasionally also Trio, Quartet or Orchestra) are avatars of the jazz wing of a popular, post-rock mood music--something like 21st-century bop, but with no superhuman intellectual rigor required.
		The Duo are out on the far end (and still running) of a continuum from Blue Note through Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and John Zorn to ProTools-driven electronica and beyond.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2002-04-18/mus.html (1504 words)

	Chicago Underground Duo
		Drummer Chad Taylor and Cornetist Rob Mazurek's "solo" group is releasing the results of a 1997 recording session in December 1998, 12 Degrees of Freedom.
		With guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Chris Lopes and trombonist Sara P. Smith, they are the Chicago Underground Orchestra (whose Playground was released in 1997).
		The two, with bassist Noel Kupersmith, form the Chicago Underground Trio, which will release Possible Cube on Delmark Records in January.
	centerstage.net /chicago/music/whoswho/ChicagoUndergroundDuo.html (70 words)

	Chicago orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And Chicago's "second orchestra," the Grant Park Orchestra, directed by Carlos Kalmar, is equally accomplished.
		Principal trombonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and trombone professor at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
		Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Chicago Symphony Orchestra began in 1891,...
	www.wushulink.com /chicago+orchestra.html (928 words)

	BBC - Jazz Review - Chicago Underground Duo, Axis & Alignment
		Though the Chicago Underground Duo occasionally seem to comprise of three members and often swell to become the Chicago Underground Quartet or even the Orchestra, Axis and Alignment just features core members drummer/vibraphonist Chad Taylor and the cornet and electronics of Rob Mazurek.
		Though the prospect of a cornet/drums duo may lack obvious appeal, the CUDs approach transcends the limitations of the format.
		Though many of the tracks seem to be unadorned live duo performances, some are spiced up with electronics (Mazurek recently released a solo electronics record) or a spot of post production dub action.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/jazz/reviews/chicagounder_axis.shtml (487 words)

	Blowin' in the wind / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The swirling musical energy that surged through Chicago in the 1960s with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is felt today in that city's underground free-jazz movement.
		Chad Taylor, heralded as "the most graceful of free drummers," serves as Chicago Underground Duo's "rhythm section." Mazurek, with cornet, synthesizer, pianette, laptop – and a storehouse full of rich sound samples – weaves in and out of the flow.
		Mazurek, 35, was born in Jersey City and moved to the suburbs of Chicago at age 10.
	www.mountainx.com /ae/2001/0117mazurek.php (996 words)

	Chicago Underground Quartet: self-titled - PopMatters Music Review
		But now that Parker is apparently a full-fledged cast member, they are the Chicago Underground Quartet.
		So now that we've established how cool this release by the Chicago Underground Quartet is, the only conclusion we can reach is how uncool I am for not falling for it head over heels like a good critic.
		It just doesn't seem very Underground to make a jazz album (or post-jazz or whatever this is) that reveals so little about the participants.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/chicagoundergroundquartet-st.shtml (856 words)

	Chicago Underground Duo: Axis and Alignment: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the mid-90s, these two started a weekly improv gathering at Chicago's infamous Green Mill jazz club, which led to various recorded incarnations as the Chicago Underground Duo, Trio, Quartet, and Orchestra.
		Last year's Chicago Underground Quartet album saw Mazurek and Taylor supplementing their usual fervent free-jazz explorations with the dignified calm of 1950s bebop-style jazz.
		While the Duo's previous two albums made use of found/manipulated sound and occasional Powerbook flourishes, this release sees them stepping into the forefront.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/chicago-underground-duo/axis-and-alignment.shtml (877 words)

	Junkmedia: Chicago Underground Duo : Axis and Alignment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I saw the Chicago Underground Duo perform live between the Flamethrower and Chicago Underground Quartet releases.
		So when I heard the Underground were planning another Duo release this year, I set my hopes once again for the Moog sounds I had missed on their last record.
		A listen to the Underground releases in chronological order will reveal his journey into the world of electronics and the marriage of his cornet with digital sound.
	www.junkmedia.org /?i=175 (757 words)

	Chicago Underground Duo \| Synesthesia
		The Chicago Underground Duo, despite its name, is not a shadowy pair of comic book-inspired crime fighters.
		This dynamic duo has no underground lair and the only thing they're fighting on their new album might be the rigid conventions of the jazz musical establishment.
		This music, exemplified in the lush soundscapes of Tortoise, one of the aforementioned Thrill Jockey side projects, and closely imitated by labelmates Isotope 217, and rival Bubble Core acts Mice Parade and The Dylan Group, has proved to be a real contender in the battle over jazz's future direction.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=6404 (710 words)

	ipedia.com: Tortoise (band) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tortoise, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990, was one of the first American indie rock bands to incorporate styles closer to Krautrock, free jazz, minimalism, and electronica rather than the standard...
		Tortoise, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990, was one of the first American indie rock bands to incorporate styles closer to Krautrock, free jazz, minimalism, and electronica rather than the standard rock and roll and punk that had dominated indie rock for years.
		Others, however, have criticized Tortoise's music as being derivative of progressive rock and claim that Tortoise will never have a long-standing influence on rock music.
	www.ipedia.com /tortoise__band_.html (292 words)

	BBC - Jazz Review - Chicago Underground Trio, Slon
		The Chicago Underground is made up of core duo cornettist Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor which augments with guest players to become Trios, Quartets, even an Orchestra.
		Whatever shape it takes the 'Underground offers up certain characteristics: an engagement with the possibilities of form and of the interaction between acoustic and electronic instrumentation.
		The title track and "Palermo" present electronic soundscapes full of blips and stutters, the silver sound of spoons and a humming that could be the sound of muted, slightly exhausted wisdom.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/jazz/reviews/chicagotrio_slon.shtml (583 words)

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