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[JAZZ] What is jazz? Is it the traditional contrabass soaked stylings of Juini Booth or the avant-garde performace art of Buffluxus? Yep. But it can also be the wild electronic improvisation of one man band, Jeff Repeater, and the solo electronics of David Kane. And what the heck, even the pop-tinged sounds of Buffalo Music Hall of Famer, Joe Rozler. But I Thought You Said It Was Jazz, this Friday, December 12 at Nietzsche’s, will certainly stretch the traditional definition of jazz to its breaking point, but breaking points have always been a jazz tradition. Stretching rhythms and extending grooving passages are what define jazz; and this group, whether they sound like jazz or not, have a knack for doing just that. Rozler, Booth, Repeater, Kane, and Buffluxus (guitarist Don Metz, vocalist Michael Basinski, flutist Michael Colquhoun, percussionist John Smigelski, and bassist Anthony Henry) will take jazz to new heights and unknown places this Friday.