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Gregg Bendian
by Bill Milkowski
Since the early '90s, drummer Gregg Bendian has distinguished himself as an adventurous and accomplished player-composer through his sideman work with the likes of Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Peter Brotzmann and Pat Metheny while also leading his own Interzone Quartet and Trio Pianissimo. His most recent recording is the startlingly virtuosic solo ...
Various Artists: Mahavishnu Redefined: A Tribute to John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra
by John Kelman
With guitar icon John McLaughlin's greater visibility, thanks to recent tours with his 4th Dimension group and Five Peace Band collaboration with pianist Chick Corea, there's been a flurry of reassessment of his vast and vital output as a repertory source. Drummer Gregg Bendian's Mahavishnu Project delivered first-time performances with Return to the Emerald Beyond (Cuneiform, ...
Nels Cline: Coward
by Stuart Broomer
Few guitarists cover the sheer range of Nels Cline, moving between genres from folk and rock, as a member of Wilco, to free jazz, with Vinny Golia and Gregg Bendian among others, to his own highly eclectic projects that impinge on all of these categories. Coward is a solo record, in the sense ...
Research
Label: Aggregate Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Suspend & Disperse, for Zakir Hussain (prepared drum set); Crosshatching, for Iannis Xenakis (two bongo drums); Danbury, for Charles Ives (bowed vibraphone and glockenspiel); One Million, for Max Roach (drum set); Red Nova, for Red Norvo (marimba); for Steve McCall, My Teacher & Friend (snare drum); Mixture, for Olias (multiple percussion); Billowing Segments, for Edgard Varèse (drum set); Frame the Invisible, for Arshille Gorky (vibraphone and crotales); Japan, for Alex Cline (multiple percussion).
Gregg Bendian: Research
by John Kelman
All-percussion ensemble albums are rare in any genre. Still, by digging deep, it's possible to find exceptional discs like Swiss percussionist Pierre Favre's Singing Drums (ECM, 1984) and, more recently, The New Percussion Group of Amsterdam's Go Between (Summerfold, 2007), proving that percussion needn't be just about the rhythm. Solo percussion albums are even less common. ...
Return to the Emerald Beyond
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2007
Track listing:
CD 1: 01. Eternity's Breath (14:30); 02. Lila's Dance (9:00); 03. Can't Stand Your Funk (6:56); 04. Pastoral (10:58); 05.
Faith (2:55); 06. Cosmic Strut (5:42); 07. If I Could See (1:51); 08. Be Happy (6:59)
CD 2: 01. Earth Ship (11:59); 02. Pegasus (3:40); 03. Opus 1 (2.09); 04. On The Way Home To Earth (8:58); 05. Smile of the
Beyond (5:00); 06. Vital Transformation (11:25); 07. Sister Andrea (11:11)
The Mahavishnu Project: Return to the Emerald Beyond
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il gruppo guidato dal batterista Gregg Bendian affronta un compito davvero arduo: riproporre dal vivo l’intero secondo album della seconda edizione della Mahavishnu Orchestra, intitolato Visions of the Emerald Beyond. Un lavoro affascinante, ma non particolarmente fortunato dal punto di vista del successo discografico. Un'opera molto ambiziosa registrata in studio dalla band di John McLaughlin nel ...
Gregg Bendian: Inner Flame, Musical Visions
by Ian Patterson
“Being an American musician means being adventurous. The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions. You know, music which at one time was considered primitive, uncultured, savage, whatever it may have been...dangerous ...
Change
Label: Aggregate Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Statement; Ice Blue; Prelude; She Knows; Glancing; Knot Grass; Slee & Dream; To Ben Riley; Gallop's Gallop; Torrents.
Gregg Bendian's Trio Pianissimo: Change
by John Kelman
Building on the deep interaction of Balance--originally released in 1998 but recently reissued by TrueMedia JazzWorks--Change finds Trio Pianissimo continuing to explore, evolve, and integrate percussionist/composer Gregg Bendian's diverse musical interests. While the piano trio represents Bendian's most intimate setting to date, that doesn't mean that Change operates in conventional terms. It is, in fact, a ...
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