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Chicago, once the home of the blues, is now riddled with thousands of pale, intense college kids playing motorik post-rock, most of whom having at some time been members of Tortoise. Their tunnel-vision mission? To reclaim jazz from its revered museum-piece pedestal and return it to the vital, vicious, experimental musical lifeblood it once was. Here are two such efforts...

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