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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.
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.
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.
Stand Up!
Label: Analog Tone Factory
Released: 2025
Track listing: Lone Jack (For Ray Charles And Pete Rende); Michelle’S Song (For Michelle Egan); Lunar Cycle
(For Sam
Rivers); The Break Song (For Stevie Wonder); High Falls (For Meaghan Glennan); Mosh Pit (For
Trent
Reznor); Vanguard (For Paul Motian); Unbowed (For Kenny Barron).
Talk To Your Tomatoes
Label: 150 Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1. On A Clear Day
2. Help Me
3. When These Two Hearts Collide
4. How I Feel (From the Musical The Me Nobody Knows)
5. Blossom
6. Talk To Your Tomatoes
7. Round Midnight
8. You Pull Through
9. Pure Imagination
10. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
Ancestral
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Awakening; Under The Wire; Contact; Tug; Profess; Alter Of The Ancestors; Quixotica;
Postscript.
Coding the Self: Theo Bleckmann on Finding Your Own Language
by Leo Sidran
Theo Bleckmann has spent decades living in the space between: between categories, between careers, between composition and improvisation, even between apartments. Born in rural Germany, he trained as both a boy soprano and a competitive figure skater, before coming to New York at 23 to study with the legendary singer Sheila Jordan. Quickly he found a ...
The Bad Plus at The Hamilton Live
by Robert Bellafiore
The Bad Plus The Hamilton Live Washington, DC November 9, 2025 The ancient paradox known as the Ship of Theseus poses a philosophical riddle: if every piece of a ship is gradually replaced until no original components remain, is it still the same ship, or has it transformed into something else ...
John O'Gallagher: Ancestral
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist John O'Gallagher keeps moving east in his search for musical expression. Born in Anaheim, California, before relocating to New York City and living there for thirty years, he finds himself (in 2025) in Lisbon, Portugal. He boasts a played with/recorded with resume to knock the proverbial socks off (Joe Henderson, Tony Malaby, Maria Schneider, Kenny ...
