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NOAH ADAMS, host:
From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Noah Adams.
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
And I'm Robert Siegel.
To the delight of some and the dismay of others, jazz-rock fusion is making a comeback. Reissues of 1970s recordings by Miles Davis, Weather Report and Return to Forever are selling in the tens of thousands. When the records first came out, some critics derided them as attempts by older jazzmen to appropriate young people's music. But now a generation of younger musicians who grew up on rock 'n' roll are drawing on jazz rock and a host of other influences. One of those bands is a Seattle trio called Living Daylights. Marcie Sillman of member station KUOW has this profile.
MARCIE SILLMAN reporting:
Dale Fanning, Arne Livingston and Jessica Lurrie first started playing music together six years ago at wine and cheese parties thrown by Lurrie's father.
Ms. JESSICA LURRIE (Living Daylights): But we weren't really, you know, a serious project. I mean, we had the name Living Daylights and we had this tape. And then I think we really kind of cemented ourselves as being really committed as a band when we went into debt together.
Unidentified Band Member: Yeah.
SILLMAN: That was in 1995 when saxophonist Lurrie, drummer Fanning and bass player Livingston scraped together enough cash to put out their first album "Falling Down Laughing."
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SILLMAN: Up to that point, Jessica Lurrie had been touring with the all-female Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet. Dale Fanning and Arne Livingston were free-lance musicians playing everything from Afro-pop to jazz. Livingston says not only was his heart not in the jobs, neither was his body.
Mr. ARNE LIVINGSTON (Living Daylights): I was playing rock 'n' roll gigs and I was playing some blues gigs. And I pretty much was falling asleep on...