Jazz Articles about Ben Tyree/BT3

Ben Tyree/BT3: Burn it! LIVE

by Ian Patterson
January 3, 2015

Even prior to moving to New York from his native Washington DC in 2002 Ben Tyree was genre-bending in Miscellaneous Flux, fusing hip-hop, jazz and punk vocabulary. His outright debut as leader, re:Vision (Sonic Architectures, 2010) was a hard-grooving take on contemporary jazz-fusion featuring DJ Logic and John Medeski. That template flew out the window on Thoughtform Variations (Sonic Architectures, 2012), a bold solo acoustic venture of sophisticated harmonics and alternative tunings that drew on jazz, folk, blues and classical ...