Blog: Obnoxious Listeners

Download audio file (portico_quartet.mp3) I've come across a band that has me questioning the already loose definition of jazz I thought I knew. Perhaps it's just how modern jazz is evolving, or maybe it's the blatantly different atmosphere painted by the band's instrumentation. Whatever it is, Portico Quartet is without a doubt very unique. The band consists of drums, a saxophone, an upright bass, and a hang . What's that? Never heard of an instrument called a hang? Yeah, me neither until I found Portico Quartet. It was apparently first developed in 2003 by a [...]

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