Sex Mob The best contemporary jazz album category is usually good for tepid pop-jazz, but not this year.

Sex Mob's sets feature a high proportion of covers, usually familiar pop songs, given a humorous, but avant garde treatment.

Sex Mob, the riotous jazz quartet, opened the show with a set that mixed Abba songs with honking improvisation.

Sex Mob is a rowdy jazz-based band that has no problem vulcanizing rock, pop, mainstream jazz, funk, or anything else that sounds shiny and attractive.

Sex Mob Does Bond (2001)

May 25: Sex Mob.

The band pairs with Sex Mob, a much younger but equally rollicking party outfit.

And Sex Mob applies the lessons of avant-gutbucket jazz to radically remake familiar songs.

Bar Kokhba performs again at 11, followed by Sex Mob; tickets are $45.

Sex Mob's 2006 CD Sexotica was nominated for a Grammy.