[SUITE JAZZ] The Tulsa-based Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey has made a rep—and 20 albums—on the strength of its appealing jammy-jazz improvs and rock covers, which have won it some of the same indie fans as Medeski Martin & Wood and the Bad Plus. But after its recent forays into Beethoven symphonies, the quartet's new long-form, multimovement Race Riot Suite is a change of direction that musically recounts the hideous, greed-generated genocidal 1921 attack on Tulsa's African-American middle class that killed hundreds of black Tulsans and devastated their neighborhoods. The music, which deploys horns, composer Chris Combs’ lap steel guitar and piano, draws on jazz (Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton) and swing (Tulsa native Bob Wills) of the period, but its fierce contemporary sounds follow the example of other ambitious jazz composers like Ellington, Mingus and Marsalis. The band will be augmented tonight by horn players Peter Apfelbaum and Mark Southerland.

Where: Goodfoot Lounge
Phone: 503-239-9292
Address: 2845 SE Stark St.
Website: www.thegoodfoot.com