Endangered Blood at Morris Graves Museum Of Art

Chris Speed and Jim Black have been playing together since their high school days in Seattle. For decades in New York theyve made the rounds separately and together, and in 2008 they formed a one-off quartet to play a benefit concert for a desperately ill friend and fellow musician. (It wasn't a blood disease.) The friend recovered, but the band, with Oscar Noriega on alto sax and bass clarinet and Humboldt native son Trevor Dunn on monster bass, kept performing and recording and dazzling critics and fans with what All About Jazz calls their seamless mix of bebop, Mariachi, free jazz and post-bop...

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Chris Speed and Jim Black have been playing together since their high school days in Seattle. For decades in New York theyve made the rounds separately and together, and in 2008 they formed a one-off quartet to play a benefit concert for a desperately ill friend and fellow musician. (It wasn't a blood disease.) The friend recovered, but the band, with Oscar Noriega on alto sax and bass clarinet and Humboldt native son Trevor Dunn on monster bass, kept performing and recording and dazzling critics and fans with what All About Jazz calls their seamless mix of bebop, Mariachi, free jazz and post-bop. Now theyve reached a sort of watershed in the evolution of creative music that was once called jazz.

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