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New Free Live Spare Parts Downloads From Archive.org
For those of you who can't get enough Spare Parts, click the links below to download recently recorded shows at Alive One!
http://www.archive.org/details/SparePartsAtAliveOne06-24-2010
http://www.archive.org/details/SparePartsAtAliveOne06-17-2010
 
Chicago Jazz Magazine Album Review

Another rave review!

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By Paul Abella

...These three can lay down some serious funk, whether it be the kind meant to get you on the dance floor, or the kind that makes you tap your foot while your mouth is left gaping

Clearly, a band that can lay down the funk for seventy minutes with nary a dull spot in the mix is doing something right. Very right.

... What makes Trio even more fun is the fact that... Spare Parts make sure that every single note that gets played here serves the groove first, which means that even when the sixteenth and thirty-second notes are flying, they still bring the funk, first and foremost. And if choice in material already set them apart from much of the jazz scene in Chicago, their ability to make a pocket regardless of what they’re doing sets them apart from the rest of it.

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CD Review by Jazz Chicago

Spare Parts - "Trio"  - Review by Brad Walseth (www.JazzChicago.net) 

Hold on to your hat when you put this one on your CD player. Chicago's Spare Parts have a "no-holds-barred/everything-including-the-kitchen sink" approach to their energetic musical attack. On Trio this trio - consisting of Kevin Kozol on several keyboards, Colin Scott on electric bass and Mike Bruno on drums and percussion - concoct a free-wheeling fireworks display of enjoyable playing and songwriting for the benefit of the listener and/or dancer. These memorable tunes are at times funky ("Meteorite," "Home Run Incident," "Police Report," "The Junction," "Brainwreck"), at times progressive fusion "Trilogy Parts I-III," "Japanese Rock Song," "Earland") with forays into pop ("Hello Dear," "Absynth") and even smooth space lounge ("The Last Straw," "Water Music") - often combining disparate elements within the songs themselves. The musicianship is first rate - with Scott a "Fender-Funkmeister," Bruno driving the band like it is a well-tuned Bugatti and Kozol supplying cascades of keyboard washes and sounds ranging from orgasmic organs and acoustic piano to electric pianos and chewy synth leads. A fun album that will get the limbs moving all akimbo - they must be killer live.

 
Spare Parts Plays Every Thursday Night At Alive One!
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Need your Spare Parts fix? Well you are in luck! Spare Parts has switched to every THURSDAY night at Alive One FOR FREE!!! That's right folks, now you can take your sick day in style and start your weekend early. A giant THANK YOU to everybody who helped make Wednesday nights such a success over the last year and please don't forget to tell your friends about the Thursday night shows. Post a Facebook note, send an email, make a snowman, hire a plane to fly a banner across North Ave. beach. Without you we don't exist! Help support live Chicago music and we will see you there...
 
Alive One is located at 2683 N. Halsted just south of Diversey. Did we mention, the shows are FREE! Come and toss one back with some friends and hear some great new music!
  
 
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