Jazz Articles about Kneebody

Kneebody: Chapters

by Mike Jacobs
December 10, 2019

Chapters--the title of Kneebody's 2019 release--has a certain appropriateness, as it definitely marks several new ones for the band. One being that lyric-oriented songs account for nearly half of the material on the album. Technically, vocals are nothing new to Kneebody. The band included one track with vocals on their 2002 proto-Kneebody album Wendel. Its 2009 collaborative effort with Theo Bleckmann, Twelve Songs of Charles Ives (Winter and Winter, 2008) was nominated for a Grammy and indeed their recent EP ...

Kneebody al Blue Note di Milano

by Claudio Bonomi
June 7, 2019

Kneebody Blue Note Milano 22.05.2019 Tante le ragioni per vedere in azione i Kneebody, band americana di jazz elettrico alla ribalta ormai da quasi vent'anni (i primi concerti risalgono al 2001, quando i componenti frequentavano da studenti la prestigiosa Eastman School of Music a Rochester, New York). Primo, perché la loro uscita milanese coincideva con il debutto, almeno in Europa, dell'inedita formazione a quartetto a causa dell'uscita di scena del bassista ...

Kneebody at Blue Note in Milan

by Roberto Cifarelli
May 26, 2019

Kneebody's Perfect

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 19, 2019

In less than two decades Kneebody has established itself as reference band of forward-looking musicians. With a brand new EP out, By Fire, their first release entirely dedicated to covers, a new outlet (the British musician-run reference label Edition Records), and new line-up following the departure of bassist Kaveh Rastegar, there's a been a lot going on for this influential group. So this week we look back at their genre-bending work, and at the busy careers and eclectic collaborations of ...

Kneebody at Jazzmi festival in Milan

by Roberto Cifarelli
November 23, 2017

Kneebody: Anti-Hero

by Mike Jacobs
September 1, 2017

Several questions came to mind when listening (repeatedly) to Kneebody's latest offering, Anti-Hero. 1. “Why does this feel important?" Easy one. Anti-Hero is by far the strongest effort yet from arguably the most original collective to strafe the jazz world in recent history. All the pheromones that make Kneebody so attractive have never been fuller in force. Next question... 2. “Is Kneebody really a band or some nefarious hive-mind experiment gone musical?"

Kneebody at Johnny Brenda's

by Mike Jacobs
April 25, 2017

Kneebody Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia PA April 7, 2017 Generally when a band announces that a group member is waylaid and can't make the gig, those in the audience start to resign themselves to an evening of subconscious apologetics--("It's not the same but pretty good for a guy subbing on short notice." or “They're doing pretty well for being a man down.") But this is Kneebody... So when saxophonist Ben Wendel told ...