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Watching John Mailanderâs Forecast live is a bit like trying to watch gravity. You know thereâs a centripetal force holding it all together, even if you canât see it, and even when the jazz- and bluegrass-inspired collective spins out of orbit. Those spacey improvisations took center stage at the bandâs May 6 album release stream. Mailanderâs group returned to the Five Spot, their first live show since the pandemic began, to celebrate the release of
Look Closer, a six-track EP and Mailanderâs third full-length solo album. Mailander has previously said he feels most grounded in the bluegrass tradition, constituting the building blocks of his storied professional career as a fiddle player. Heâs toured and done studio sessions with Nashville icons like Molly Tuttle and he played on Billy Stringsâ Grammy-winning album