Jazz Articles about Ben Allison

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Matt Wilson's Good Trouble: Love Is The Whole Thing, We Are Only Pieces

by Pierre Giroux
September 25, 2026

Drummer Matt Wilson has never needed a soapbox to make a point. His drumming has always been open, as if the music has something to say. It makes sense, then, that Wilson has reconvened Good Trouble to continue making good music with good people, which he considers the most effective form of dissent. With Tia Fuller and Anisha Rush on alto saxophones, Jeff Lederer on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Dawn Clement on piano and vocals, and Ben Allison on acoustic ...

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Matt Wilson: Good Trouble

by Jerome Wilson
July 9, 2024

Drummer Matt Wilson continues his tradition of recording humorous and humanistic jazz here with the debut of a new quintet, Good Trouble, which includes both old and new associates. This group has a two-saxophone front line with Wilson's long-time colleague, Jeff Lederer on tenor sax, and Tia Fuller on alto sax. They complement each other well as they blow through the strutting rapture of “Albert's Alley" and the dancing shuffle beat of Ornette Coleman's “Feet Music." The group's ...

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How Ya Ben?

by Patrick Burnette
June 13, 2024

In the last (for a little while, at least) of our one-artist focused podcasts, the boys take a deep dive into bassist/composer/bandleader Ben Allison's latest four releases. Ben's an exact contemporary of our intrepid podcasters, if a bit better looking and more talented, and they followed his career from early days until a few years back when they stopped picking up releases for a hot minute. Anyway, here's all the news on two projects by Ben's new trio as well ...

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Ben Allison at the Rizzoli Bookstore

by Luciano Rossetti
October 15, 2023

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Ben Allison: Creative Reworkings And New Inspirations

by Angelo Leonardi
April 27, 2023

We talk about “The Ben Allison Remastered Series 2004-2011" a project that led the New York bassist, composer, and educator to personally edit and remix some of the albums he had originally released on Palmetto Records. Through this painstaking work which started at the height of the pandemic, Ben Allison not only brought a new level of acoustic clarity and detail to those albums, but also unearthed a few gems not included on the originals. The interview also touches upon ...

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Ben Allison: creative riletture e nuove ispirazioni

by Angelo Leonardi
March 6, 2023

In quest'intervista Ben Allison ci parla del recente progetto “The Ben Allison Remastered Series 2004-2011," iniziativa che ha portato il bassista a curare personalmente riedizione e remixaggio di alcuni suoi album Palmetto. Il lavoro va oltre gli scintillanti risultati acustici e presenta nuove e sorprendenti scoperte musicali tratte dai master originali. All About Jazz: Nei mesi della pandemia hai rimasterizzato cinque tuoi album Palmetto, pubblicandoli sulla tua etichetta Sonic Camera Records. Con l'uscita a fine gennaio di Action-Refraction ...

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Ben Allison, Rickie Lee Jones, Mette Henriette, Jo Lawry & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 21, 2023

The painstaking job of unearthing subtle nuances which were lost in earlier mixes of five of his albums is at the heart of the remastering labor of love that Ben Allison has embarked on during the pandemic. During the first part of our show we focus on listening with new ears to some of our old favorites from those albums. Then we turn to other musicians that strive to discover new angles and perspectives on old tunes, or to examine ...