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The challenge attending jazz, classical, and other forms requiring what might be called greater dexterity, precision, or just chops, is this: If the musicians with those chops can’t produce sounds that folks want to hear, all that talent is likely to whirl around an exit-free vacuum. Not so with Jazzanova , one of the entities that have helped form the genre variously called Nu Jazz, Jazz House, and Chillout. Formed in ’95 and centered in Berlin, Germany, the DJ/producer collective has been cooking ever since. Getting a bunch of players on the same page with these time signatures and [...]