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Ben Neill
Composer/performer Ben Neill is the inventor of the Mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument, and is recognized as a musical innovator who blends acoustic instrument performance with digital technologies to create “art music for the people” (Wired Magazine). Through his use of interactive computer technologies, Neill creates immersive musical and visual experiences, melding the worlds of electronic music, minimalism and visual media.
Fourteen albums of Neill’s music have been released on labels including Six Degrees, Universal/Verve, Thirsty Ear, Astralwerks, and his own Blue Math label distributed by AWAL/Sony. Performances include BAM Next Wave Festival, Big Ears Festival, Lincoln Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, Bing Concert Hall at Stanford, Getty Museum, Cite de la Musique Paris, Moogfest, Spoleto Festival, Umbria Jazz, Bang On A Can Festival, ICA London, Istanbul Jazz Festival, Vienna Jazz Festival, the Tank Center for Sonic Arts, and the Edinburgh Festival, among many others.
Prana Cantos (Guided Meditation)
By Ben Neill
Label: Six Degrees Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Torana
Yugen
Numen
Glint
Zephyra
Supra
Canto
Helix
Wing
On Miles' (not so) Silent Way
by Ludovico Granvassu
On 30 July 1969 Miles Davis released In a Silent Way. After influencing generations of musicians, its tracks continue to sound as modern 50 years later as when they were first recorded. This week we celebrate the musical trail blazed by that seminal album by focusing on musicians that have embraced Miles' electric ...
Peter Evans Quintet: Ghosts
by Mark Corroto
The Peter Evans Quintet's Ghosts acts as a sort of back-to-the-future recording--that is, if the present were 2021. This inaugural release on the trumpeter's own label has a standard trumpet/piano/bass/drums setup, plus the incorporation of real-time, live electronic processing to make up the full quintet. Listening to any recording by Evans often prompts the ...
AAJ's Top 15 Interviews of 2009
by AAJ Staff
With nearly 150 interviews published in 2009, AAJ continues to provide the most extensive jazz coverage on the web. We also expanded our interview coverage to include, for those surrounding new CD releases: associated Daily Download tracks; accompanying CD reviews; contest giveaways; and more. As always, AAJ provided coverage of well-known artists ...
Night Science
By Ben Neill
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: Futura; Afterimage; Gaugear; Outlands; Menace Ultimo; Hearthrob; Monochromatic; Alpha Dub; Booster; Hudsonic.
Announcing the Winners of the "Ben Neill - Night Science" Contest
Matthew Kingsbury, Judith Manuel, Gary Free, Edward Rodberg and Robert Boling, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Thirsty Ear Recordings “Ben Neill - Night Science“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Thirsty Ear Recordings for more releases. ...
Ben Neill: Starting a Dub War
by James Taylor
To say that Ben Neill plays the trumpet--the instrument of such jazz legends as Miles Davis and Clifford Brown--is an epic understatement. “I think electronica is like a new form of jazz--it's an instrumental form of music that plays out in popular culture but has musical ideas that go beyond the expectations of pop music," says ...
Enter the Thirsty Ear "Ben Neill - Night Science" Giveaway
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Thirsty Ear “Ben Neill - Night Science“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on November 21st. Click here to enter the contest (Following Ben Neill at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends ...
Ben Neill: Night Science
by Lyn Horton
Composing an aural atmosphere oozing with timelessness requires a talent for making choices from an infinite array of sound propositions. That talent without doubt lies in Ben Neill, whose Night Science boasts a stunning consistency and coherence in fulfilling of the process of combining electronic and acoustic sounds. Refining his signature of individuality as he plays ...
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