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Jim Hobbs: alto saxophone, compositions
Timo Shanko: bass
Django Carranza: drums

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Long one of Boston's musical gems, The Fully Celebrated (Orchestra) have always been Jim Hobbs: alto sax, Timo Shanko: bass, and Django Carranza: drums. A jazz band playing the rock clubs like the young punks they were, developing along the way into the multiple-genres-in-one sages they became. Following a series of European and self-releases, Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones was their auspicious AUM Fidelity & U.S. label debut, featuring a stellar set of all new Hobbs compositions. The album (as the group itself) cannot be stylistically pegged, as each piece is a completely different & fully realized excursion.

Principal composer Jim Hobbs is an untouchably gifted master of the alto saxophone, he impeccably produces a wholly cogent array of sounds from the horn, often times of which the instrument was not originally designed to manifest. The Fully Celebrated here wield an arsenal of ways and means to transform yr present moment through song and trio massage. Joyous bounce and sway, punkolodic riffage, incantatory cosmic groove & the stone flux title cut version of the classic reggae riddim, Stalag, dubfully rendered in Brooklyn on the eve of Election ‘08 with dew of ‘09 in mind..

"Why this is the year of the saxophone trio"
–NPR/A Blog Supreme Year-End List Of Lists 2009

#2 - Village Voice : An Alternate, Unsettled Top 10 of 2009
Top 10 Jazz CDs of 2009 : The Jazz Session

"Boston-based saxophonist Jim Hobbs, bassist Timo Shanko and drummer Django Carranza began performing together in 1987. Yet their latest collaboration, Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones, hardly sounds like the work of instrumentalists well into their third decade of collaboration. The album feels fresh and playful, displaying the creative exuberance typically associated with young players in the joy-of-discovery phase. On the opening 'Moose and Grizzly Bear's Ville', Hobbs lines a.......
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