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Kneebody: The Trip

By Mike Jacobs
April 5, 2023
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If there are jazz earworms, this one's so intoxicating it might indeed be suspected of originating in a bottle of Mezcal—were it not so infectiously upbeat, that is. From their album Chapters (Edition, 2019), "The Trip" features the classic five-man Kneebody complement of Ben Wendel, Shane Endsley, Kaveh Rastegar, Adam Benjamin and Nate Wood plus the added mojo of Gerald Clayton on piano. A great, wild ride...

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