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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