This weekend, San Francisco's Jazz Mafia performs an expansive, ambitious work called "Brass, Bows and Beats" at the Hollywood Bowl for the Playboy Jazz Festival and again at the Monterey Jazz Festival in September. If you can't be there for one of the live performances, pop music critic Steve Hochman says you'll want to get their new record.
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