JIM HOBBS' FULLY CELEBRATED ORCHESTRA - Sob Story

"On Sob Story, Fully Celebrated Orchestra sounds as sharp and unruly as ever, turning Jim Hobbs’ knotty compositions into a hard-swinging, freebop tangle of grit, wit, and controlled combustion. The quintet’s long-earned chemistry gives the music its bite—Taylor Ho Bynum’s cornet cuts through Ian Ayers’ wiry guitar lines while Timo Shanko and Luther Gray keep everything lurching forward with bruising momentum. After decades together, FCO still plays like a band with something to prove: fierce, funny, and gloriously unhousebroken."