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Daniel Bennett Group: Clockhead Goes to Camp
by Hrayr Attarian
Reedman Daniel Bennett's Clockhead Goes to Camp is a crystallization of the motifs explored in his previous work. The thirteen short tracks--the longest clocking at less than six minutes--are concise, crisp and deceptively simple. The intriguingly surreal ambience results from the mixture of international folk influences and futuristic minimalism.“Last Summer At Camp Creepy" is ...
Daniel Bennett Group: Clockhead Goes to Camp
by Sammy Stein
Manhattan based saxophonist Daniel Bennett graduated from the New England Conservatory in 2004 and since then has made ever increasing waves as a composer, band leader and woodwind player in the New York theatre scene. Clockhead Goes To Camp is the Daniel Bennett Group's fourth album, following the success of the 2011 Peace and Stability Among ...
Daniel Bennett Group: Peace And Stability Among Bears
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The album art (a bear bedecked in Wild West accouterments) and song titles ("Farmer Joe Was A Bear," “Dogs Of Our Time") of Daniel Bennett Group's Peace & Stability Among Bears promise a good--if cartoonish--time. What's going on in the music, however, is something altogether different. The quartet performance led by reeds player Bennett sounds light ...
Bruce Lindsay's Best Releases of 2011
by Bruce Lindsay
What sort of a year did jazz have in 2011? On the evidence of my Top Ten, a very varied and fascinating one. The human voice did well--Liane Carroll and Kaz Simmons produced beautiful, engaging and honest recordings that stir the emotions in very different ways. Finland did alright too, thanks to superb albums from Iiro ...
Daniel Bennett Group: Peace And Stability Among Bears
by Bruce Lindsay
The Daniel Bennett Group's trio of bear-related albums, the “Bear Thompson Trilogy," reaches its lovably eccentric conclusion with Peace And Stability Among Bears, a delightful collection of Americana-flavored jazz tunes. The trilogy started with 2007's A Nation Of Bears and 2008's The Legend Of Bear Thompson (both on Bennett Alliance), but while all three are linked ...
Daniel Bennett Group: Peace & Stability Among Bears
by Josep Pedro
Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Bennett concludes his trilogy of fables about bears, deepening his unique mixture of jazz, folk, minimalism and trance musics with Peace & Stability Among Bears. Following melodic exploration as the main idea, Bennett combines lightness and subtlety with dreamlike passages that define his particular sound universe. Entertaining and complex, Peace & Stability Among Bears ...
Saxophonist Daniel Bennett Releases Second "Bear Installment"
"For some reason, Bennett has a thing for bears: he's following up last year's A Nation of Bears on his own Bennett Alliance label with the July release of The Legend of Bear Thompson- both of them part of a projected 'Bear Trilogy.'" Jon Garelick (Boston Phoenix) Boston Saxophonist Daniel Bennett has been busy these days. ...
Saxophonist Daniel Bennett in Concert with Zyrah's Orange on May 31 in Boston, MA
The fifth installment of the Bennett Alliance Concert Series has arrived! On May 31, two well known Boston bands will play a double bill at the restored Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre (820 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA). Zyrah's Orange brings their groove flavored rock, and saxophonist Daniel Bennett will bring his minimalist trance quartet to the stage. ...
