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Ben Winkelman

Born: February 27, 1973

Ben Winkelman is a jazz pianist and composer living in New York City. His writing explores diverse musical interests filtered through a jazz perspective: Afro-Cuban, gospel and classical music, with a focus on Latin rhythms in odd meters.

He will be touring the US and Canada in April 2019 to celebrate the release of his fifth album Balance, featuring Matt Penman and Obed Calvaire, on OA2 Records.

Ben has released five trio albums to wide acclaim: his second, The Spanish Tinge, won the AIR Award for Best Independent Jazz Release; his first was nominated for an Australian Jazz Bell Award; and his third and fourth albums were nominated for AIR Awards. His work has been supported by grants from the Australia Council and other arts organizations, and he was a finalist in the Australian National Jazz Awards. He has toured in Europe, Asia and extensively in Australia.

Heartbeat

By Ben Winkelman

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Praise; Fort Tilden; Chilches; Wandering; Isolation; The Wonky Waltz; The Plague; Heartbeat; Machine.

Praise

September 11, 2023

Album: Heartbeat
By Ben Winkelman
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:24

Ben Winkelman: Heartbeat

by Neil Duggan
September 6, 2023

Awaiting the arrival of his first child while locked down in New York City during the pandemic were probably not the circumstances which pianist Ben Winkelman would ideally have chosen for writing new music. Nonetheless, taking inspiration from the anticipation of fatherhood and the feeling of isolation acted as the catalyst for the nine compositions which ...

Balance

By Ben Winkelman

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: BX12 Part One; April; Wheels; Santiago; Merri Creek; Window Shopping; The Trip; Fala Baixiño; Bye-Ya; BX12 Part Two.

3x3: Piano Trios, vol. V

by Geno Thackara
May 18, 2019

Nick Sanders Trio Playtime 2050 Sunnyside Records 2019 Nick Sanders understandably sees some turbulence ahead at the midpoint of the century (not to mention the decades leading up to it). Disturbing as this cover may seem, though, he and a couple adventurous trio-mates make sure this speculative portrait keeps its ...

Ben Winkelman: Balance

by Dan Bilawsky
April 6, 2019

Jazz, much like life, is an art of balance, a forever dance on the scales which keep our sanity and existence in check. Form must always reckon with freedom, scripts and spontaneity are bound by mutual understanding, and intellect blossoms truest as it holds the heart in high regard. Only in a state of relative equilibrium ...

The Knife

By Ben Winkelman

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2015

Enildo Rasua at the The Jazz Standard

by Ernest Barteldes
August 10, 2013

Enildo RasúaNew Dimensions In Latin Jazz: Cuban Drum SeriesThe Jazz StandardNew York, NYAugust 6, 2013For his U.S. debut, Cuban drummer/percussionist and composer Enildo Rasúa kicked off the evening's early set with a snippet of Ernesto Lecuona's “La Comparsa," and then quickly moved into “12 de La Noche," a composition ...

Tim Nikolsky: Australian Jazz Real Book

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2013

Australian Jazz Real Book Tim Nikolsky 662 pages ISBN: 979-­0-­9009613-­5-­8 Australian Jazz Real Book 2013 It's been five years in the making, but finally, Melbourne guitarist Tim Nikolsky's one-man crusade to assemble an Australian Jazz Real Book has succeeded. In fact, as Nikolsky related ...