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Against Silence

December 21, 2020

Album: The Poets Are Gathering
By Benjamin Boone
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 4:34

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Saxophonist Benjamin Boone Broadens His Explorations Of Poetry & Jazz With "The Poets Are Gathering," Due Oct. 16 From Origin Records

September 29, 2020

Benjamin Boone takes his fascination with the merger of poetry and jazz to stunning new heights on The Poets Are Gathering, set for an October 16 release on Origin Records. True to its title, the album finds the saxophonist-composer assembling a large group of acclaimed American poets—11 in all, including Tyehimba Jess (Pulitzer Prize), Patricia Smith ...

Article: Interview

Benjamin Boone: The Poetry of Jazz and the Ghanaian Connection

by Duncan Heining
June 10, 2020

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 ...

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The Intricacies of Alice

June 1, 2020

Album: Joy
By Benjamin Boone
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 5:50

Article: Album Review

Benjamin Boone: Joy

Read "Joy" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 20, 2020

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. ...

Article: From the Inside Out

Innervisions, Improvisations and Other Jazz Fevers

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 30, 2020

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Benjamin Boone with the Ghana Jazz Collective: Joy

by Dan Bilawsky
March 8, 2020

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 ...

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Musician

Benjamin Boone

Born: October 19, 1963

Saxophonist and composer Benjamin Boone's Origin Records album with US Poet Laureate Philip Levine, The Poetry of Jazz, was called “an album of unmistakable… historic importance” (UK Vibe), “a master class in the combining of different art forms…an essay in complementarity” (All About Jazz), and voted #3 “Best Album of 2018” in DownBeat Magazine’s 83rd annual Readers Poll. DownBeat noted, “despite the star turns [guests Branford Marsalis, Chris Potter, Greg Osby and Tom Harrell], Boone not only distinguishes himself with uncluttered, affecting orchestrations, but by passionately balancing intellect and emotion.” All About Jazz echoed, “these guest artists might be the attraction for the jazz listener, and Levine for the poetry fan, but that would miss the extraordinary music both written and performed by Boone.” The album was featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” a Staff Pick in The Paris Review, and on Amazon’s “Hot New Releases” list for months. He served as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ireland (2022-23), Ghana (2017-18), and the Republic of Moldova (2005), and is a Professor of Music at California State University Fresno.

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Saxophonist-Composer Benjamin Boone Collaborates With Accra-Based Ghana Jazz Collective On New Album "Joy," Due March 20

January 10, 2020

Saxophonist-composer Benjamin Boone’s “The Poetry of Jazz," a visionary collaboration with U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine, was praised in leading musical and literary publications, featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and voted the #3 Best Album of 2018 in DownBeat’s 83rd annual Readers Poll. Boone documents an equally compelling collaboration, this time from his year as ...

Album

The Poetry of Jazz, Volume Two

By Benjamin Boone

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: 1. LET ME BEGIN AGAIN; 2. AN ORDINARY MORNING; 3. THE SIMPLE TRUTH; 4. THEY FEED THEY LION (Instrumental); 5. TO CIPRIANO, IN THE WIND; 6. THE POEM CIRCLING HAMTRAMCK, MI, ALL NIGHT, IN SEARCH OF YOU; 7. BELLE ISLE, 1949; 8. YAKOV (Instrumental); 9. SNOW; 10. GODSPELL; 11. THE HELMET; 12. THE SIMPLE TRUTH (Instrumental); 13. THE CONDUCTOR OF NOTHING; 14. SOUTH; 15. SATURDAY SWEEPING; 16. BLOOD; 17. WHEN THE SHIFT WAS OVER; 18. GODSPELL (Instrumental) (HOMAGE TO PHIL & BRIAN)