Results for "Kenny Wollesen"

Kenny Wollesen

Drummer Kenny Wolleson performed on over 30 recordings during the 1990s and, as the decade progressed, gained increasing renown as a musician of astonishing versatility, skill, and ingenuity. He has recorded and toured with all kinds of musicians, from Tom Waits (Wolleson performs on Waits' 1993 collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Black Rider), to Sean Lennon, to Ron Sexsmith (Wolleson performs on his second album, Other Songs). A founding member of the New Klezmer Trio, Wollesen is also all over N.Y.C.'s downtown jazz and avant-garde musicians' recordings, and has been so active as to tour with Bill Frisell and Myra Melford in the same month

Reimagining Bitches Brew at the New York City Winter Jazzfest

by Dave Kaufman
January 26, 2026

Each year, the New York City Winter JazzFest, in collaboration with the music-promotion collective Pique-Nique, presents its “Take Two" series, which revisits and reimagines landmark recordings from the jazz canon. Previous editions have paid tribute to historically significant works, including a memorable presentation of Max Roach's Members, Don't Git Weary (Leo Lab, 1968) several years ago. ...

Bobby Naughton Trio: Live at Charlie's Tap

by Mark Corroto
January 22, 2026

Today, a number of drummers, including Ches Smith and Kenny Wollesen, also double on vibraphone, underscoring the instrument's fundamentally percussive nature. In the hands of Bobby Naughton, however, the vibraphone functioned as something more expansive: a reimagined piano, capable of both harmonic depth and rhythmic propulsion. Naughton began studying piano at the age of ...

Sextet

By Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness

Label: Reva
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Shall Not Want; The Beginning of the Universe; Tiny Little Inkling; Kush; Fundamental Blue; Trouble; Running in the Darkness; Whose Tears Are These; This Herein Goes Nowhere; Psalm for a Shared Tomorrow; Shadow Box; Prepare a Refuge.

Echo

By Emi Makabe

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Birthday Song; Morisan; Mu; Dignity; Snow; Scape; Text; Letter; Echo; Overture.

Meet Guitarist Adam Levy

by Mike Brannon
November 16, 2025

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in March 2002. Even if you have listened to jazz for a while, you might not have heard of Adam Levy, but you likely will, either through his higher profile efforts, including work with Tracy Chapman, Joey Baron, Sexmob, John Zorn, and now the latest Blue ...

Roxana Amed: Salir de la melancolía

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 18, 2025

The history of pop and rock from Argentina is remarkably rich. Yet outside Latin America, icons such as Luis Alberto Spinetta, Charly García, Gustavo Cerati, and Fito Páez remain less celebrated than they deserve. With her album Todos los fuegos (Sony Latin), Argentine singer Roxana Amed took it upon herself to give a little contribution to ...

Rebecca Martin: She

by Angelo Leonardi
August 7, 2025

Sono trascorsi esattamente trent'anni da quando la EMI pubblicò il debutto della 26enne Rebecca Martin (Once Blue), nel gruppo omonimo col bassista Ben Street, il chitarrista Kurt Rosenwinkel e il batterista Kenny Wollesen. Da allora la cantautrice ha pubblicato tredici album (sei da leader) con musicisti a lei particolarmente affini: non solo il marito Larry Grenadier ...

Merano Jazz Festival And Academy 2025

by Giuseppe Segala
July 17, 2025

Merano Jazz Festival and Academy 2025 Varie sedi Merano 8-13 luglio 2025 Il jazz a Merano ha mostrato alcuni dei suoi molteplici volti. Quello dell'orgoglio, della denuncia sociale e della teatralità afroamericana intrisa di soul con il quartetto We Exist! guidato da Dee Dee Bridgewater. Quello eclettico, ricco di humor e ...

I Shall Not Want

July 16, 2025

Album: Sextet
By Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness
Label: Reva
Released: 2025
Duration: 3:40