Sep 8th '05 by jed @ 10:36am 3 Comments

Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra kicks off the Williamsburg Jazz Festival tonight at Galapagos. Travis Sullivan arranges Björk’s signature sound for large jazz ensemble, and it sounds pretty great. In fact, I haven’t been able to listen to “Army of Me” since the summer of ’95, when it was on the radio every 15 minutes or so. But check out Travis Sullivan’s cool arrangement, performed live:

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The show starts at 9 pm with a set by the MK Groove Orchestra who sound a lot better than their name might lead you to believe.

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Comments (3)
  1. Topher  |   Posted on Sep 8th, 2005

    Silly me and my DC locale, but I thought “wow, cool. Colonial Williamsburg has a jazz festival.” Then I thought, oh yeah…

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  2. kenny  |   Posted on Sep 8th, 2005

    thanks for this!!

    great contribution to stereogum, keep it up.

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  3. hibiscusroto  |   Posted on Sep 9th, 2005

    This would be better if Bjork was singing

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