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With their first studio album “The art of Cherry” jazz trio Fat Kid Wednesday showed that Don Cherry was the founder element of their
music. The FKW trio—Michael Lewis on saxophone, Adam Linz on bass and JT Bates on drums—have been called musical storytellers,
and indeed a conversational style exists in the rhythm section, punctuated nicely with exhilarating licks from Lewis. The threesome takes
the crazy risk to "believe" in the virtues of the eternal regeneration of this music. Rejecting most of the options of those who carry on
playing jazz as a "game" (mannerist distanciation, academic deference), the Fat Kids find naturally some essential values (lyricism, vital
energy, commitment) and sign a music that is so strongly anchored in the present that it touches timelessness.