Jazz Articles about Marco Benevento

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Marco Benevento: Tigerface

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 7, 2013

Mettete insieme suoni da batteria sintetica e videogame, melodie trasognanti, aggiungete una solida dose di pop e il risultato si avvicinerà a Tigerface, l'ultimo album di Marco Benevento, tastierista trantacinquenne stabilitosi a Brooklyn e originario del New Jersey, innamorato di tutto ciò che una tastiera bianca e nera può offrire, purché effettata. Hammond e Wurlitzer sono le sue grandi passioni, il pianoforte non può mancare ma l'anima pop degli anni in cui si è formato ha dato vita a un ...

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Marco Benevento: TigerFace

by Chris May
September 5, 2012

When a renegade instrumentalist such as keyboardist/sonic adventurer Marco Benevento records an album with a relatively big budget, and with the shock-horror addition of a vocalist, it can be bad news for the core audience. Bye bye bohemia, hello mainstream. TigerFace was tracked, not at Benevento's usual Brooklyn location, but at Los Angeles' EastWest studio, where the Beach Boys recorded its 1966 sonic masterpiece Pet Sounds, a studio which does not come cheap; and it features, on two tracks, Kalmia ...

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Marco Benevento & Friends: Live in NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency

by Doug Collette
January 16, 2010

Marco Benevento & Friends Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency The Royal Potato Family 2009

Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency makes an ideal companion piece to the other high point of Marco Benevento's solo career so far, Live At Tonic (Ropeadope, 2007) and it features a similar cast of characters, all of whom contribute to bringing out the best in the keyboardist.

It isn't to slight Marco Benevento ...

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Marco Benevento: Me Not Me

by Mark Corroto
February 7, 2009

It comes as no surprise that pop and jazz performers would attempt to reconcile their relationship. After the honeymoon period that was Tin Pan Alley, marriage wrecker hard bop, followed by the extra-marital affair with free jazz, ended things quite poorly. The children survived and played fusion, but the marriage was over. Certainly the reunion, perhaps reconciliation of the two, has been a long time coming. Not that Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus and Sexmob haven't mined a bit of ...

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Marco Benevento: Me Not Me

by Chris May
January 27, 2009

It's hard, even one year and countless spins on, to listen to keyboard player Marco Benevento's gimcrack riot of sound “The Real Morning Party" without breaking into a huge grin, if not out-loud laughter. The track, from the Benevento trio's debut album, Invisible Baby (Hyena, 2008), explodes with an irresistible love of life. The group's follow-up, Me Not Me, continues in the same abandoned and colorific vein as its predecessor. Some of the tracks are ...

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Marco Benevento: Invisible Baby & Live at Tonic

by Graham L. Flanagan
March 11, 2008

Marco Benevento Invisble Baby Hyena 2007 Marco Benevento Live at Tonic Ropeadope 2007

Armed with an arsenal including a grand piano and a myriad of vintage synthesizers (not to mention just plain old children's toys), keyboard virtuoso Marco Benevento emerged in the last few years as one of the shining stars ...

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Marco Benevento: A New Form of Fusion

by James Taylor
March 3, 2008

With his work has one-half of the Benevento-Russo Duo, Marco Benevento has helped fuse elements of indie rock, improv jazz and jam band aesthetic, exciting nationwide audiences in clean concert halls, smoky bars, and muddy, open-air festivals like Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits. Benevento is a student of the piano, trained at Berklee School of Music, but he seems most comfortable when surrounded on all sides by a collage of black and white keys, assorted buttons and knobs, trigger pads, ...