grand melodies, gorgeous shifting textures, subversive beats. smart original music played with commitment, humor, and a free-jazz spirit.

11 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Weird Jazz, ROCK: Instrumental Rock



Details:
"Stark grandeur...Sickafoose is a bassist and composer fond of rough edges and rounded forms, as evidenced on his evocative new album...the feel is loose but precise...a compelling dose of hazy atmosphere." (New York Times)

"Melodic and venturesome...full of surprise, funkiness, and post-Mingus charms." (Santa Barbara Independent)

"***** (of 5) Blood Orange: what a perfect title for such a luscious, deeply colored and sensual album which lulls its listeners through a trippy and dreamy mix of jazz, psychedelic chill and suggestions of pop. With melodies that trail like smoke through dimly lit corners of space and sparkling, harmonic echoes that delicately trail along the edges of each soundworld, the Todd Sickafoose Group captures exquisite atmospheres with absolute ease and holds their beauty within the smallest of places- a simple sax line, a looping guitar pattern, just the right touch of reverb. You might call this headphone jazz. It's nothing short of a magical album where within each song, some unseen bud of inspiration is lying hidden under a frosty, frozen layer of reflection." (CD Baby)

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With a band of longtime collaborators. Saxophonist Ben Wendel (Kneebody), trombonist Alan Ferber (Don Byron/Charlie Hunter), guitarist Justin Morell (Peter Erskine), drummer Ches Smith (Good for Cows/Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog), plus guest musicians Nels Cline (Nels Cline Singers/Wilco), Steve Moore (Skerik/Laura Viers/Sufjan Stevens), Adam Benjamin (Kneebody/Dave Douglas), & Mark Ferber (Ralph Alessi).