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This is a ?jam band? that casts its net wide but keeps a sharp focus. Its about grooves ? grooves in every sense of the word. No solos in the standard framework ? this is a group going for musical strength through sonic cohesion and rhythms that are both ?tight? and ?loose?. Better living through better listening. "What King Crimson did for rock and Voivod did for heavy metal, the quartet of Ned Rothenberg, David Tronzo, Stomu Takeishi and Tony Buck might one day do for improvised music if their performance at Issue Project Room (Nov. 13th) was any indication. The granite rotunda of the Brooklyn venue was transformed into a cyclotron for two stunning sets of music, beams of sound spinning around at hyperspeed. Those that know Tronzo?s slide guitar as a warm inviting presence were chilled by its bleak, almost apocalyptic message. Buck?s drums and Takeishi?s electric fretless effected bass provided searing rhythms over which the guitar and Rothenberg?s circular breathed reeds bubbled, volcanic in purpose and execution. If Ornette Coleman innovated the "time, no changes" approach to jazz, this quartet?s advance was "intensity over time".