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    MOPPA ELLIOTT

    Mar 08, 2019 2 minutes
    STEVE GREENLEE

    JAZZ BAND/ROCK BAND/DANCE BAND (HOT CUP)

    Is there anything Moppa Elliott won’t try? The restless bassist, high school teacher, arranger, composer, and leader of the iconoclastic, genre-hopping, lineup-shifting, avant-jazz band Mostly Other People Do the Killing has done everything from Dixieland destructions to a. On his new two-CD set, the so-very-accurately titled , Elliott presents three “albums” by three groups. Each is excellent on its own. Together they constitute an incomparable offering.

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