SUN 5/29
Kneebody isn't lacking in credibility, not with the L.A.-based, instrumental jazz-rock fusion quintet's collective résumé that sports gigs with Ani DiFranco, Snoop Dogg, and jazz trumpet luminary Dave Douglas. Yet even with academic credentials from New York's prestigious Eastman School of Music for four of Kneebody's five members (the fifth, drummer Nate Wood, graduated from the California Institute of the Arts), it's the band's signing to Douglas' Greenleaf Music label that gives the band's self-titled debut CD its pedigree. While critics have had a difficult time pegging Kneebody's style and sound -- which mixes funky, off-tempo beats with the bouncing melodies of saxophones, trombones, keyboards and sonic bass lines -- it might be just as hard for Kneebody's burgeoning fan base to squeeze into Modified Arts, 407 East Roosevelt, for the band's gig at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 29. Admission to the show is $7. Call 602-462-5514 or see www.modified.org. -- Joe Watson
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