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Ben Monder
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A musician in the New York City area for over 30 years, Ben Monder has performed with a wide variety of artists, including Jack McDuff, Marc Johnson, Lee Konitz, Billy Childs, Andrew Cyrille, George Garzone, Paul Motian, Maria Schneider, and Marshall Crenshaw. He also contributed guitar parts to the last David Bowie album, "Blackstar". Ben conducts clinics and workshops around the world, and has served on the faculties of the New England Conservatory, NYU and the New School. He was the recipient of a Doris Duke Impact Award in 2014, and a Shifting Foundation grant in 2013. Ben continues to perform original music internationally in solo and trio settings, and in a long standing duo project with vocalist Theo Bleckmann
Purposing the Air
Label: Pyrolastic Records
Released: 2025
Track listing:
CD 1:
Fay Victor & Mariel Roberts: Koan 28; Koan 13; Koan 55; Koan 15; Koan 47; Koan 11; Koan 18; Koan 37; Koan 12; Koan 38; Koan 46; Koan 39; Koan 43; Koan 35; Koan 58.
Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell: Koan 5; Koan 3; Koan 7; Koan 48; Koan 29; Koan 42; Koan 31; Koan 36; Koan 49; Koan 25; Koan 56; Koan 17; Koan 6; Koan 20; Koan 9.
CD 2:
Koan 8.
Theo Bleckmann & Ben Monder: Koan 23; Koan 10; Koan 24; Koan 30; Koan 32; Koan 33; Koan 45; Koan 40; Koan 14; Koan 59; Koan 60; Koan 53; Koan 51; Koan 54.
Rachel Calloway & Ari Streisfeld: Koan 1; Koan 34; Koan 22; Koan 19; Koan 26; Koan 21; Koan 57; Koan 27; Koan 41; Koan 50; Koan 52; Koan 44; Koan 2; Koan 16; Koan 4.
Transition (s)
Label: Corner Store Jazz
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ben I; Untitled; Brief Piece; Untiled Ones; Transition; Ben II; Phills III; Openings; Beyond; 'Too
Easily; Phills II; Ben III; Epilogue.
Lullaby for the Lost
Label: Edition Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Wasteland; Solace; Stately; Blond Crush; Celestial; Tokyo Game Show; Lullaby for the Lost; Kid; Mercy.
Donny McCaslin: Lullaby for the Lost
by Neil Duggan
Saxophonist Donny McCaslin and his band's collaboration on David Bowie's final album Blackstar (ISO Records, 2016) marked a pivotal moment in McCaslin's career. Following Bowie's death just two days after the album's release, McCaslin transitioned from being a well-respected jazz musician to achieving international recognition. His band's innovative contributions helped make Bowie's final album a critically ...
The Publicist: Antje Huebner
by B.D. Lenz
With technology transforming our world and every aspect of our lives changing so rapidly, it can be difficult to keep up. And the music business, like every other enterprise, has seen the same metamorphosis. For anyone who simply wants to be a musician, it's just not that easy anymore. With all the tools to manage a ...
Sheila Jordan (RIP), Phil Haynes, Jason Kao Hwang, and Sarah Wilson
by Jerome Wilson
This episode pays tribute to the recently deceased Sheila Jordan by playing music from the early and later parts of her long career. It also features music from Sarah Wilson, Jason Kao Hwang, and Phillip Haynes among others. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & ...
John O’Gallagher, Ivo Perelman, Jon Irabagon & Tomas Fujiwara
by Maurice Hogue
Three of today's premier saxophonists share this edition's spotlight, as all have new releases--John O'Gallagher, Ivo Perelman & Jon Irabagon. O'Gallagher, now living in Portugal, reunites with guitarist Ben Monder on his new Ancestral and pulls off a first for master drummers Billy Hart and {{m: Andrew Cyrille who had never played together. Perelman, on the ...
Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air
by Vincenzo Roggero
Avventuroso e ambizioso Purposing the Air, nuovo progetto di Ingrid Laubrock, notevole sassofonista di origini tedesche qui nelle vesti di compositrice. Dal poema “Mood Librarian -a poem in koan" di Erica Hunt, ha estratto sessanta frammenti, trenta nel primo CD e trenta nel secondo, affidandoli a quattro duo dove l'elemento fisso è la voce mentre la ...
Phil Haynes: Electricity Incarnate!
by Doug Collette
In the annals of jazz both short-term and long, the influence of drummer-led initiatives is immeasurable. There is Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers, of course, plus Tony Williams' Lifetime and, in addition, numerous single-minded efforts like these two coincidental releases of Phil Haynes. Each is a largely freewheeling exercise in revisitation gestated during COVID lockdowns: ...
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