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News: Performance / Tour

From the Chicago Jazz Festival to Paris, France--Drummer Jimmy Bennington

From the Chicago Jazz Festival to Paris, France--Drummer Jimmy Bennington

Drummer/ Bandleader Jimmy Bennington to play in Paris following a duet performance with legendary trombonist Julian Priester at the 30th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival. Performing at the L'Atelier Tampon-Ramier, Sunday, September 21, Bennington appears with renowned French bassist Benjamin Duboc and special guests. Chicago drummer/ bandleader Jimmy Bennington leaves for a brief stay in Paris following ...

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Portraits and Silhouettes

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2007
Track listing: Portraits and Silhouettes; Dust; Return to Saturn; In Waltz Time; Mood Indigo; Blount; Call I; Call II; Re: Sun Ra / Julian's Oral History.

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Article: Album Review

Jimmy Bennington / Julian Priester: Portraits and Silhouettes

Read "Portraits and Silhouettes" reviewed by Matthew Miller


Onstage at Spike Hill in August, 2007, a bar-cum- performance space in the bougie heart of Williamsburg, Julian Priester addressed his fans with unadorned deliberateness, the spoken equivalent of his trombone playing. “Music is magical...[a]willingness to expose your most vulnerable self...to discover that it's OK to expose your most vulnerable self. The 72 year-old trombonist has ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Jimmy Bennington

Read "Take Five With Jimmy Bennington" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Jimmy Bennington: James Arnold Bennington, Born 22 May, 1970 in Columbus, OH. He was raised in Detroit, MI until the age of nine when his family moved to Houston, TX. He began music studies there on clarinet, playing the instrument for three years before switching to drums at age thirteen. Primarily self-taught, Bennington played in ...

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Midnight Choir

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Mind (3:43), Two Fascinations (7:03), Street Of Loneliness (4:06), Equinox (11:10), Ganges (7:54), Malcolm Pinson! (0:27), What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? (8:42)

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Article: Interview

Meet Drummer Jimmy Bennington

Read "Meet Drummer Jimmy Bennington" reviewed by Jack Gold-Molina


Currently residing in Seattle, Washington, Jimmy Bennington began his musical studies as a child in Texas. Having spent two years between 2000-2002 working as a drum tech for Elvin Jones touring the United States and Europe, Bennington is a drummer with a distinctive playing style and he has had the opportunities to work with a diverse ...

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Article: Album Review

Jimmy Bennington: Midnight Choir

Read "Midnight Choir" reviewed by Budd Kopman


There is little information included about the music on Midnight Choir to prepare you for the listening experience (though there is a bio of Jimmy Bennington), and the disc starts right off quite abstractly. The first two tracks are attributed to Seth Paynter (sax) and are of a sparse, non-rhythmic, free kind that is more expressionist ...

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Midnight Choir

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Mind; Two Fascinations; Street of Loneliness; Equinox; Ganges; Malcolm Pinson!; What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?

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Article: Album Review

Jimmy Bennington: Midnight Choir

Read "Midnight Choir" reviewed by John Kelman


Free jazz, or avant jazz, is risky business. The best of the bunch show how a group of players can operate in simpatico by virtually creating something out of nothing; or how to create new and unusual sonic textures that take the listener to places heretofore uncharted. The worst sound like a conglomeration of players who ...


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