Gordon Leigh and the Naked Ear play jazz music, but they don’t play your grandma’s jazz.
They put on a trippy show of jazz fusion at the Slice for approximately 20 people, Wednesday, Jan. 4.
They laid down a seductive groove of hypnotic bass and percussion and added a variety of distortion drenched guitar solos and keytar riffs as lead singer Gordon Leigh alternated between delivering deadpan poetry and playing the flugelhorn and keytar.
They jammed on a Herbie Mann tune called “Memphis Underground,” and then went “Out of Control,” with some poetry and a couple other songs.
Throughout their percussionist played an array of different and unusual instruments. They will be back at the Slice, Jan. 18.
— by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
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