80th Birthday Bash: Live at the Velvet LoungeChicago tenor saxophone legend and proprietor of the longest standing and most adventurous avant garde jazz club in Chicago, Fred Anderson celebrated his 80th birthday this past March and Delmark was there to capture it.

the big boss' brutal bevy of deadly killers make mincemeat out of the school and everyone inside

The latter element strengthens the band's music

Recorded live at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on November 11

Stefano Senni

Sophie and her friends must rally together to send their party crashers back to hell

In-the-now and at-the-ready

Hugh Benham

but in it's day it must have sounded radical

AKA: "The Dead That Walk

and some will rise while others must fall

Miller grounds each track with the vulnerable songwriting and unaffected vocal presence he's brought to the Old 97's for the last 3 decades

her consummate saxophone and clarinet playing