Request: Elliot Freedman Group - Bands of Merriment, Vol.1, West Coast Quintet Live [by request limited time only]

 

With regards to these guys, discogs says:

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The Elliot Freedman Group advances a harmonically elegant, compositionally uncompromising, non-canonical adventurous jazz.  “Very, very good avant fusion” Guitar Player magazine

Of course the title of this one is either ironic or ridiculous, you choose.  As described, it's tight fusion with some contemporary jazz elements (eg acoustic jazz piano).  His personal style is very similar to Alan Holdsworth, but I find the sound of the guitar which is somehow passed through a synth (?) quite distracted sometimes with its twangy whistling aspect.  You'll see what I mean when you listen to it.

For ex., the first track, Finding Form For: