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Buggin out (from left): Skerik, Brad Houser and Matt Chamberlain of Critters Buggin.

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With Bachir and Mustapha Attar of the Master Musicians of Jajouka
9 p.m. Wednesday, September 5
$17, 303-786-7030

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street, Boulder

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Jazz, Ken Burns's controversial documentary series, publicly dismissed post-1965 avant-garde players for being outside of the jazz genre entirely. "People like Wynton Marsalis are doing what I call necro-jazz," Skerik snaps. "Digging up these graves and fucking these dead bodies. And you're never gonna do it as good as the originators did it. When the originators were doing it, it was something new and the majority of the people at the time didn't like it. It was a risk. And what [Marsalis] is doing is contrary to the spirit of the music."

Accusations of corpse-burgling aside, Skerik and company let the thrill of improv speak for itself, especially live. "We're all committed to the show," Skerik says. "We all have a strong connection to traditions like James Brown and P-Funk. You've got to throw down. You've got to play the room. That's another way that this band can be a lot more satisfying live, because we don't have a set show with a set list. We know our stuff so well because we've been playing together for eight years. Doing something special for each show every night -- that's the goal."