Jazz Articles about Gregg Bendian

Bendian, Gauthier, Liebig, Stinson: Bone Structure

by Walter Kolosky
February 13, 2003

Bone Structure is something different: post-jazz fusion-progressive rock-electronica-jam band music that features a wily sinister vibe. Some of the infectious grooves are reminiscent of those laid down by Ginger Baker and Jonas Hellborg on Baker's very fine and underrated Unseen Rain from several years back. Other influences can be heard as well. From time to time guitarist G.E. Stinson sounds remarkably like John McLaughlin from Miles Davis' Live Evil. There are also allusions to works such as Weather Report's “Mr. ...

Gregg Bendian's Interzone: Requiem for Jack Kirby

by Todd S. Jenkins
April 12, 2002

Gregg Bendian's Interzone: Requiem for Jack Kirby

by Todd S. Jenkins
March 1, 2002

An impeccable tribute to an incomparable artist. Jack Kirby was one of the great comic-book creators, a dweller in places of long shadows and stark colors who fathered the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the X-Men and other legendary Marvel Comics. A musical tribute to a visual artist working in that medium might seem strange, but Interzone managed to pull off a coup. The music on Requiem is dead-on evocative of Kirby's grotesque otherworlds, and fascinating at that. From ...