Industrial Jazz Group
Portland, OR      Jazz / avant garde party music / comedy
    • Songs
    • Howl (live)
    • PDX LIX LAX (live)
    • Bandoleero, part two
    • Big Ass Truck (live)
    • The Job Song (live)
    • Bajaja
    • Don't Let 'em Getcha (live)
    • Fuck the Muck (part two)
    • What's in Anne's Icebox? (live)
    • Fuck the Muck (part one)
    • Cannon Indie
    • Daphne's Dream City
    • Cozy 'n Tooty
    • Plus or Minus Eleven
    • The Man in the Godzilla Suit
    • Hard Times / The End of Money
    • The Bee Dance (The Waggle Dance)
    • Jazz-Pop Jerkoff
    • How Low
    • Introducing the Reeds
    • Introducing the Brass
    • Fuck the Muck, part one
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Members: Dan Schnelle, Oliver Newell, Cory Wright, Gavin Templeton, Evan Francis, Brian Walsh, Gabriel Sundy, Damon Zick, Dan Rosenboom, Josh Aguiar, Kris Tiner, Steph R
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Formed by composer Andrew Durkin in 2001, the 16-piece Industrial Jazz Group has developed a reputation for fun, high-energy, quirky, genre-bending shows, featuring what it calls “avant garde party music.” Critics and fans consistently cite the group's capacity for simultaneous sophistication and accessibility; the IJG’s quirky sonic stew was perhaps best summed up by Brandt Reiter of the LA Weekly, who called it both “cerebral and swinging, ambitious and accessible, challengingly complex and unabashedly fun.”

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Frustrated by the limitations of “Jazz, the Institution,” but equally resistant to the confines of modern pop, the Industrial Jazz Group has slowly pioneered a middle way. Its music is an idiosyncratic blend of rock, bebop, cartoon soundtracks, blues, funk, Balkan music, doo wop, and, well, a lot of other stuff. (In the end, it’s neither “industrial” nor “jazz,” so don't let the name fool you.)

Scott Yanow of LA Jazz Scene, who compares the IJG to Holland’s Willem Breuker Kollektief, enthusiastically calls the group “both a crack up and a memorable musical experience." And Tom Bowden of Educational Digest once wrote that “[IJG composer Andrew] Durkin writes music that people who think they hate jazz would like.” (A fact that explains why IJG has appeared at popular music festivals like SXSW and Midpoint.)


The most recent incarnation of the group features Damon Zick, Cory Wright, Evan Francis, Brian Walsh, Gavin Templeton, and Gabriel Sundy (saxes); Dan Rosenboom, Kris Tiner, Steph Richards, Josh Aguiar (trumpets); Ian Carroll, Mike Richardson (bones); Dan Schnelle (drums); Oliver Newell (bass); Tany Ling and Jill Knapp (vox); Andrew Durkin (compositions, conducting, piano).

The group's latest CD, LEEF, released in 2008, was recorded live at the world-famous Bimhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to performing overseas, the IJG has toured the US, playing many shows in California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. It has received numerous grants from the American Composers Forum, has been supported by the NEA and the McKnight Foundation, and has been heard on NPR and hundreds of radio stations around the world. Write-ups on the IJG have appeared in LA Weekly, SF Weekly, The Wire, The North Bay Bohemian, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Boston Herald, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Willamette Week, and numerous other publications.


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