SOUNDS: On today's playlist

"Hyperballad," by The Bjorkestra

Most contemporary jazz reminds me of the boring soundtrack my parents play through the house intercom during dinner. They like to call it "dinner music." I should bring The Bjorkestra's CD home the next time I visit them. It's not exactly my folks' style of dinner music, but the band has a great cross-generational thing happening with their just-experimental-enough-without-crossing-into-head-scratching-territory twist on traditional jazz instrumentation.