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JayVe Montgomery at Little Harpeth Brewing for Far Out Fest 333, June 2019Photo: Kaedi Maney
In a year when the global community had to find new ways to live, Nashville musicians got busy integrating jazz and improvised music into a variety of contexts. While our more mainstream jazz scene persevered, there was nothing monolithic about the jazz-adjacent records that Music City players released in 2020, and that’s a tribute to the city’s innovative spirit.
Some Nashville musicians pushed and pulled jazz into new territory. Skin Tension — the duo of drummer Josh Byrd and guitarist Edward Longo — harked back to Miles Davis’ electric period on their EP