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     “The NYC scenesters in The MK Groove Orchestra are the pin up boys for where big band music is heading. The band bops all over the map with brass knuckle brass and pornographic funk. The first time I heard this band my socks kept rolling up and down on their own. 
     The 10-odd piece band’s progressively vintage sound is big and mind-blowingly cool. But hey, don’t fence them in, as much as the classic big band wail of Goodman, Miller, Dorsey, Brown, Shaw et al was the soundtrack for a generation, The MK Groove Orchestra transcends timeline classification by goosing classic lushness with a contempo haphazardry – all the while brazenly staring down the apocalypse.
     Often when jazz gets funked up it also gets smoothed out. But you don’t have to worry about that here. MKGO exhibits raw realism with frayed edges. The horns build a Berlin Wall of jazzy sour to counter the groove’s sweet. And the electric guitar shows up occasionally as if in the passing lane.
     So despite the backbreaking funk and their reverent big big band irreverence, MKGO is still a jazz band at heart – a jazz band that can’t sit still, like an 8 – year old with a chocolate saxophone.”
-Frank De Blase, City Greater Rochester’s alternative newsweekly Music – March 23-29 2005
"Reverent Big Band Irreverence."

"Progressively Vintage."

"It's like waiting for the Sun Ra to Rise."

-- Frank Deblase - City - Greater Rochester's News Weekly
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