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Michael Blake, Ben Wendel, Bjork and Others

by Jerome Wilson
August 9, 2023

This eclectic show has music from saxophonists Michael Blake and Jeff Coffin, vocalists Hailey Brinnel and Bjork(!), and much more. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Wally Cirillo “Smog L.A." from Explorations (Fresh Sound) 1:04 ...

Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2023

by Martin Longley
June 10, 2023

Jazzkaar Tallinn, Estonia April 23-30, 2023 Jazzkaar has now lost two days, this exceptional Estonian festival running at eight rather than ten, but still remaining epic when compared to most others. The opening Sunday might have only featured a single concert, but as the fresh week progressed, the scale incrementally increased, hitting ...

Article: Album Review

Ben Wendel: All One

Read "All One" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
June 7, 2023

Saxophonist Ben Wendel came up with a unique approach for this album of duets. He plays with a different musician on each of these six tracks, but while his guests stick to their primary instruments, Wendel fills in the space around them with multiple saxophone and bassoon parts, electronic effects, and percussion. The most ...

Article: Album Review

Tom Ollendorff: Open House

by Chris May
June 3, 2023

There is technical excellence, there is pretty, there is a well-honed trio, there is an in-sync guest saxophonist, and yet, and yet.... Open House is London-based guitarist Tom Ollendorff's follow-up to A Song For You (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2021), his debut, which also featured bassist Conor Chaplin and drummer Marc Michel. The ...

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Ben Wendel On 'The Unspeakable Truths' That Are Passed Between Musicians

by Leo Sidran
May 18, 2023

For saxophonist Ben Wendel, the pandemic provided the space for him to develop his latest solo record, All One (Edition Records), a project that is both very solitary and very collaborative. It features a woodwind choir of saxophones and bassoons performed entirely by Ben, and then joined by special guests like singers Cecile McLorin Salvant and ...

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Kurt Rosenwinkel, Angel Bat Dawid, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Next.Ape & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 9, 2023

Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ben Wendel and Kurt Rosenwinkel are the threads bridging the various sections of this week's show which, in turn, is like a bridge between Europe and the US.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jacques Schwarz-Bart “Sun Salutation" The Harlem Suite (Ropeadope) ...

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Camilla Battaglia, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Ben Wendel, Brad Allen Williams & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 18, 2023

Los Angeles and New York are the two poles of this playlist documenting the vibrancy of these two scenes, and their cross-pollination, including through a sample from the iconic Wattstax Benefit Concert, a dive into new releases by Colorfield Records, a jazz look at the Erykah Badu's and Kendrick Lamar's songbook, and the reimagining of Pharoah ...

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Kneebody: The Trip

by Mike Jacobs
April 5, 2023

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 ...

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Tigran Hamasyan: Shoger Jan (Live at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, 2010)

by Mike Jacobs
April 4, 2023

In 2010, Tigran Hamasyan may still have been on his way to becoming more of a known quantity but it's performances like this one that inevitably spread his reputation to larger audiences like wildfire. This 24-minute rendition of “Shoger Jan" was expanded to include spots from bassist Sam Miniae, Hamasyan and saxophonist Ben Wendel, but it ...

Article: Live Review

Ben Wendel Group At Bop Stop

by John Chacona
March 28, 2023

Ben Wendel Group Bop Stop Cleveland, OH March 22, 2023 For a long time, California has held a mythic place in the U.S. popular imagination as a fountainhead of new ideas in culture, technology, or in the case of the smartphone ("Designed by Apple in California") of both. So it makes ...