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Ben Wendel: Simple Song
by AAJ Italy Staff
Vi è una tendenza che sta diventando sempre più marcata nella nuova generazione di musicisti dell'area cosiddetta creativa della musica improvvisata. Tendenza che porta ad affiancare alla produzione maggiormente innovativa e iconoclasta lavori più canonicamente jazzistici, vuoi dal punto di vista strettamente formale vuoi semplicemente come filosofia ispiratrice. Esempio eclatante è quello del sassofonista Jon Irabagon ...
ACT: ACT
by AAJ Italy Staff
Due quinti di Kneebody più il basso di Harish Raghavan ed ecco Act, classico trio sax/basso/batteria. Il sassofonista Ben Wendel mostra così un altro aspetto della propria visione artistica: se Kneebody è formazione che scardina i canoni tradizionali del jazz, se in Simple Song, esordio da leader, il jazz funge da base per un'esplorazione discreta di ...
Otmaro Ruiz: Sojourn
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The Chambers Dictionary describes the word “sojourn" as “a temporary residence or stay, as of one in a foreign land." Pianist Otmaro Ruiz's musical journey offers all the right cues for his Sojourn being so apt to document. Even though it gets somewhat personal at times, it is memorable for anyone interested in taking the journey ...
Simple Song
By Ben Wendel
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Breath; Simple Song; Not Yet; Chorale; No Thank You Mr. West; Lonnie's Lament; Maupin; Ralph; A Flower is a Lovesome Thing; Trust Fall; She Never Had.
The Charles Ives Songs Series 2: Theo Bleckmann and Kneebody / Naxos, Vol. 1
by C. Michael Bailey
Fortunate for the recently completed cycle of songs by Charles Ives on Naxos' Charles Ives: Songs, Vol. 1 are Theo Bleckmann's re-imaginings of 12 of Ives' better known vocal compositions, Twelve Songs by Charles Ives. These two releases provide stark contrast between traditional and progressive performances of not only Ives, but of “art songs" in general. ...
Melissa Morgan: Until I Met You
by Woodrow Wilkins
Many young jazz vocalists reach into the book of standards for their first recording. Melissa Morgan follows the tradition, but in a way that works to her advantage. Morgan, 29, grew up on Teaneck, N.J. She became a jazz fan upon hearing her grandmother's old records--the music of such inspirational vocalists as Nancy Wilson, ...
Ben Wendel: Simple Song
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Reedman Ben Wendel plays music that sings in different idioms. He has collaborated with the renowned conductor, Kent Nagano in a series of concerts in Germany, and has toured with Cuban drummer, Ignacio Berroa, electronica artist, Daedelus and rapper, Snoop Dog. He is also founding member of the indefinable band, Kneebody, which has been described as ...
Tiny Resistors
Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2008
Track listing: Future Flora; Invisible Ink, Revealed; Bye Bye Bees; Pianos of the 9th Ward; Everyone is Going; Cloud of Dust; Warm Stone;
Paper Trombones; Whistle; Tiny Resistors; Barnacle.
Blood Orange
Label: Secret Hatch Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Serpentine One; Entering the Wild; Repeater; Moonfruit; Serpentine Two; Blood Orange; Microscopic Horses; Serpentine
Three; Monkey Wrench of the Future; Serpentine Four; Resolve.
