Dave "SPIZ" Marsalek - traps/jungle drum set, teacher/owner & events booking at The Muse Cafe { SPIZM - Trioizm - Steps(74) - Doppler Shift - IZM Records - Muse Cafe ); Brian Niebuhr - trumpet { Doppler Shift - Scotland Gospel Yard Choir - The Skalawags}; Joe Grez - tenor sax/fx/loops {Steps(74)- TRIOIZM - The Yellowhouse - Muse Cafe owner}; Matthew Golombisky -upright bass/electric bass/likable noise { QMR PLUS - Lucky 7's - Red Shift - The Other Planets - Tomorrow Music Orchestra - The Ears & Eyes Festival - Grilly Biggs }; Ray Pandocchi - tenor saxophone/plaid {Doppler Shift}; L. Zaide - vox {L. Zaide - The Chill Skool }, John Bescup - electric trumpet { Spacehorn7000 - Steak Fries RepriseCrystal Gravy & The Jazztronik Experiment }, Fred Kugel - guitar, Aaron Koppel - guitar {The Aaron Koppel Quartet}; Matt Nelson - keys { JuggerNaut Trio /Aaron Koppel Quartet}, Jon Markese {doppler shift}; MC Philasoph - rhymes/beats/arrangements {Aguafuego - Ways & Means Trio - Delicious Life Orchestra }; Jbeatz - female vocals/flute { Aguafuego - Delicious Life Orhestra - Women in Eclectic Music}--------------------------------------------
If you are interested in joining or being a part of The Chicago Junglebop Syndicate, message me at this site The workshop consists of a core host band, and interchangeable syndicate soloists that are available. All are welcome to try their chops over select jazz standards. We are in the business of progressively re-invent the jazz canon thru electro-acousticism, samplers, effects, jungle/idm/dnb grooves, and hyper fast rhythm designs. Prepare for the next step!
Influences
ornette coleman | eric dolphy | john coltrane | charles mingus | pharoah sanders | albert ayler | Dizzy Gillespie | ken vandermark | john zorn | sam rivers | andrew hill | charlie parker | elvin jones | tony williams | pharoah sanders | alice coltrane | thelonious monk | wayne shorter | miles davis | squarepusher | red snapper | aphex twin | autechre | lamb | dj shadow | amon tobin | medeski martin & wood | soul coughing | astroid power-up | spizm | trioizm | doppler shift | Vandermark 5 | peter brotzman | Birth | Fred Anderson | motion of defiance | kj sawka | jojo meyer | johnny rabb | ari hoenig | jimmy garrison | scott lafaro | droid | qmr plus | dave rempis | AACM | steak fries reprise | spacehorn7000 | The Muse Cafe
Sounds Like
...when ornette coleman hit NYC around 1960, charlie parker in the 40's taking the swing to a small combo group upping the tempo 200+bpms, coltrane quartet playing the newport jazz festival 1965, squarepusher meets 70's miles davis meets eric dolphy. junglebop, freespazz, modern jazz break beat, jungle, drumNbass, nu-jazz, the new thing, freejazz, fusion, IDM, glitch, phuckdup jazz standards filtered reduced and destroyed. nothing in particular, just modern jazz
The Chicago Junglebop Syndicate is a collective of working experimental jazz musicians based around the burgeoning modern jazz breakbeat style in Chicago commonly known as Junglebop. Founded by Chicago jungalist drummer, IZM Records and The Muse Cafe owner - Dave Z Marsalek , this sound's been streaming throughout the Windy City since 2003. Junglebop, being a new thing in the jazz world, is a logical yet intense pairing of jazz instrumentation, improvisation, standards with a fusion of bebop, drum & bass, jungle, glitch, dub grooves based largely around a hybrid electro-acousticism & new vocabulary in the rhythem section. Truly experimental and progressive, Junglebop is a Chicago scene in the making, currently underground, making waves in jazz massives around the city and several important jam sessions/workshops devoted to the improvisation and exploration of this style, starting with the successful run at The Muse Cafe with the 4th fridays Workshop from Dec 06 thru March 07.
Drum samplers/pads, loop pedals, tweeked mic placements and mixing boards, horns through fx, and an electro-acoustic hybridization that takes the canon of jazz and adds the destructively potent grooves of drumNbass, jungle and fragmented idm/glitch.
Junglebop started with the Chicago live modern jazz breakbeat outfit, Trioizm with Dave Z Marsalek-traps, Felix Moreno-bass { Future Rock }, & Joe Grez-sax/fx {The Yellowhouse}. After Trioizm recorded its legendary full length, Junglebop , on Chicago's IZM RECORDS the trio disbanded after a successful 2-year run & the surviving members, Dave and Joe regrouped and started the urban cafe lounge/jazz club Muse Cafe at 817 n milwaukee ave to further the live jungle/jazz/freespazz scene in Chicago. The outcome? The Electro-Acoustic Workshop . In Jan 06' Dave Z Marsalek { SPIZM } organized material, arrangements & engagements for an uber Junglebop outfit called Steps(74) featuring Joe Grez-tenor { TRIOIZM } , Brian Niebuhr-trumpet { Doppler Shift } & Matthew Golombisky - upright/electric bass/likableNoise { QMR Plus / Tommorrow Music Orchestra / Gk Duo } to host both the initial electro-acoustic workshop on Feb 2nd 06' and also a latenite gig at Weeds that same nite. Featuring burning rekontructed jazz standards such as: 4 on 6, night in tunisia, several originals, and many more, the live Jungle/DNB/Jazz workshop & weeds went explosively well with large crowds, and a seed was planted at The Muse Cafe. The monthly Electro-Acoustic Workshop continued at The Muse with local live avantronica d&b outift, 7 League Boots to much local acclaim and the Junglebop idea was set on the burner for the moment.
As they say, the rest is history, but in fact it's much more complicated than that. This is where the CJS was born. Dave Z Marsalek spearheaded the idea of a larger collective stemming from Steps(74) acting as a workshop for this new style. After much verbal collaboration & arrangement with MC Philasoph & lyracist L. Zaide along with a dozen or so talented forward-looking local lions { Matthew Golombisky - upright/electric bass/likable noise, Matt Nelson -keys, Fred Krubel-guitar, Joe Grez - tenor sax, Doppler Shift's Brain Niebuhr - trumpet and Ray Pandocchi - tenor sax & Aguafuego's JBeatz -flute/vocals}, the idea was set. August 31st 06' premiered The Chicago Junglebop Syndicate at Weed's with 2 long sets of burning music. The repetoire traveled from a smokin version of Vandermark 5's "Last Call" to Red Snapper's "Crusoe takes a Trip" to DJ Shadow's " Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt" using live samples to Wayne Shorter's "Witchhunt" and Baltimore's Injection Quartet's classic "The Chase" {a staple of the Trioizm live set as well} to Coltrane's "Naima" & a hiphop/dnb version of "Syeeda's Flute Song" & a rendition of Minugs' take on All The Things You C as "My Eyes Speak Softly". Short video clips can be viewed on FREESPAZZ on YOU TUBE & here on myspace video {type junglebop}.
The post-jazzfest CJS Showcase launched a monthly progressive Jam Session at The Muse Cafe which ran from Dec 06 thru March 07 (Muse's last nite was March 28th 07) hosted by electric trumpet player, John Bescup { Steak Fries Reprise / Spacehorn7000 } , bassist Matthew Golombisky & junglebop trappist Dave "spiZ" Marsalek .
The workshop also had help with local guitarist Aaron Koppel & Doppler's shift's Jon Markese - electric. Recordings from the Workshop can be heard on both Chicago Junglebop Syndicate's myspace, Steps(74) & a larger source, ReverbNation.com From the workshop's successful execution of the junglebop vision, IZM Records proudly released a live CD called "ITS TIME" of the Best Of the Muse CJS Workshop. The release party occured on fri August 31st 07 at Weeds {1555 Dayton St in Chicago}, which is both the 1-year anniversary of the Chicago Junglebop Syndicate's conception & a post party for the Chicago Jazzfest. The DVD is still in production with a release date in 2008. The live DVD was shot by local videographer, Mitch aka Crazy Lombardo & audio was taken from the digital recording documention of John Bescup.
The Chicago Junglebop Syndicate is dedicated to the burgeoning art of live junglejazz, abstract techno postjazz and freespazz. The CJS invites you to join our syndicate and be a part of this new chicago-based movement. If you are interested in partaking in our events, message Dave here at the CJS myspace page.
"Chicago is under deconstruction...the new noise, the new thing...Junglebop is happening in chitown, ill noise". ---------------------
As a massive thank you to all our friends and fans, we are giving away the b-side to our upcoming single "Dark is the New Light" which is being released on the 10th November on Doombox Recordings.
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The B-side is called "Bows and Arrows," it completely FREE and only a click away.
Thanks again and please download the single too!!! Its all down to you!!!
MASSIVE CD release party/show at Lillys for Doppler Shift with special guests Crystal Gravy & Mercury Effect this coming saturday June 14th. $6 at door. Show at 9pm. New CD RESISTOR $10 at show on IZM Records
Our first show back @ Morseland in over 3 months, are you ready? We’re working on a new album, so when you join the party on Saturday, June 21st 10pm, groove to the ? Take a look @ the video below, it sounds like HUDSON!
