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For the past several years, itâs felt like you have to keep track of a million minute details in order to feel at all informed about whatâs going on in our world. Thatâs been especially true during the pandemic, whose grim one-year milestone we mark in this weekâs
Scene cover story. Time feels completely, unsettlingly elastic. In that light, it feels appropriate to have a reminder of the big picture â to get to see time at a vast scale.
In February 2020, just before everything started to change, singer-guitarist and sometime
Scene contributor Ted Drozdowski and his band Coyote Motel recorded a live set at The 5 Spot, which was released in November as
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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