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Benjamin Boone

Saxophonist-composer Benjamin Boone’s 2018/2019 Origin Records “Poetry of Jazz” releases, collaborations with the late U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize recipient Philip Levine, were recognized as milestone poetry/music projects. Voted the #3 “Best Album of 2018” in DownBeat Magazine’s 83rd annual Readers Poll (just behind Chick Corea and Wynton Marsalis), praised in leading musical and literary publications, and featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” The Poetry of Jazz established Boone as one of the most compelling voices among contemporary artists exploring the intersections between poetry and music

The Poets Are Gathering

By BENJAMIN BOONE

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. THAT’S MY SON THERE (feat. Patricia Smith), 2. MAROONING (feat. Patrick Sylvain), 3. AGAINST SILENCE (feat. Tyehimba Jess), 4. POEM BY POEM (feat. Juan Felipe Herrera), 5. DECONSTRUCTION OF IDOLS (feat. Dustin Prestridge), 6. TRUTHS (feat. Lee Herrick, 7. THE POETS ARE GATHERING (feat. Juan Felipe Herrera), 8. SONG (feat. Edward Hirsch), 9. SPIRAL (feat. Marisol Baca), 10. THE SUN ONE (HOMAGE TO SUN RA) (feat. T.R. Hummer), 11. YOUR MAN (feat. Patricia Smith), 12. IMPERVIOUS BLUE (feat. T.R. Hummer), 13. BLACK MAN (feat. Donald Brown, II), 14. PORTS OF SORROW (feat. Patrick Sylvain), 15. BRANCH LIBRARY (feat. Edward Hirsch), 16. THESE CURRENT EVENTS (feat. Kimiko Hahn)

Joy

By BENJAMIN BOONE

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Intricacies of Alice; Maiden Voyage; Slam; Curtain of Light; The 233 Jazz Bar; Without You; Joy.

Benjamin Boone: The Poetry of Jazz and the Ghanaian Connection

By DUNCAN HEINING

So, Down Beat picks your record, The Poetry of Jazz, as one of its year-end top three. You put out a second volume, which is similarly well-received. Now here's the conundrum. Do you lock into the niche and follow up with more of the same? Or do you go for broke with that program masterpiece you ...

The Intricacies of Alice

Album: Joy
By BENJAMIN BOONE
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 5:50

Benjamin Boone: Joy

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Benjamin Boone's set with this band born and grown in Ghana is a genuine cross-cultural jazz Joy. The seeds of Joy were planted when composer-saxophonist Boone spent a year as a US Fulbright Scholar in Ghana in sabbatical from his professorship at California State University (Fresno), to study the country's music and musical traditions. ...

Innervisions, Improvisations and Other Jazz Fevers

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Lili Añel Better Days Winding Way Records 2019 Singer-songwriter Lili Añel and Better Days sound cut straight out of the northeast US. It's more than the geographic location of Añel's birth (Spanish Harlem, “El Barrio," in New York) or raised (South Bronx), and it's more than ...

Benjamin Boone with the Ghana Jazz Collective: Joy

By DAN BILAWSKY

When saxophonist Benjamin Boone took a sabbatical from his teaching position at California State University Fresno to travel to Ghana as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, he envisioned a yearlong educational immersion in the music, arts and broader culture of the region. What he couldn't have imagined, which became reality, was connecting with a set of Accra-based ...