Results for "Kneebody"

Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith

by Hobart Taylor
March 12, 2025

New music from Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith, Kneebody, Claire Cope and Ensemble C, and remembering Roy Ayers. Playlist Roy Ayers “Hey Lover" from Jazz Is Dead #1 (Jazz Is Dead) 0:00 Roy Ayers Ubiquity “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby" from He's Coming (Verve) 2:24 Chien Chien Lu “ We Live In Brooklyn, ...

Ballads, covers, orchestras, live recordings... and songs of unity and understanding.

by Andy Crowther
March 2, 2025

All new music, jazz from Leeds, London, Mexico, Manchester and more. Ballads, covers, orchestras, live recordings... and songs of unity and understanding. Playlist Noah Preminger “Someone To Watch Over Me" from Ballads (Chill Tone Records) 00:00 Bobi Céspedes “The Peanut Vendor" from Salsa De La Bahia Vol. 3 Renegade Queens (Patois Records) 06:16 Winnipeg ...

Betty Carter, Milton Suggs, Gillian Margot and More

by Jua Howard
July 21, 2024

Welcome Music Family! It's time for another great episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got a great show in store for you this week including new music from Milton Suggs, Carmen Bradford, and Tianna Hall,; and plenty more timeless music from artists such as the great Betty Carter, Harry Connick, Jr., Gillian Margot, and ...

Kneebody: Kneebodi

by Mike Jacobs
March 29, 2024

Ben Wendel: All One

by Claudio Bonomi
October 17, 2023

Classe 1976, canadese di nascita, cresciuto a Los Angeles e attualmente residente a Brooklyn (New York), Ben Wendel è considerato un astro nascente del jazz contemporaneo da diversi anni. Sassofonista e compositore, oltre ad essere stato nel 2001 tra i fondatori dei Kneebody, si è costruito negli anni una solida reputazione di solista e leader firmando ...

Ben Wendel On 'The Unspeakable Truths' That Are Passed Between Musicians

by Leo Sidran
May 18, 2023

For saxophonist Ben Wendel, the pandemic provided the space for him to develop his latest solo record, All One (Edition Records), a project that is both very solitary and very collaborative. It features a woodwind choir of saxophones and bassoons performed entirely by Ben, and then joined by special guests like singers Cecile McLorin Salvant and ...

Kneebody: The Trip

by Mike Jacobs
April 5, 2023

If there are jazz earworms, this one's so intoxicating it might indeed be suspected of originating in a bottle of Mezcal--were it not so infectiously upbeat, that is. From their album Chapters (Edition, 2019), “The Trip" features the classic five-man Kneebody complement of Ben Wendel, Shane Endsley, Kaveh Rastegar, Adam Benjamin and Nate Wood plus the ...

Ben Wendel Group At Bop Stop

by John Chacona
March 28, 2023

Ben Wendel Group Bop Stop Cleveland, OH March 22, 2023 For a long time, California has held a mythic place in the U.S. popular imagination as a fountainhead of new ideas in culture, technology, or in the case of the smartphone ("Designed by Apple in California") of both. So it makes ...

Trio Grande At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
December 5, 2022

Trio Grande Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland November 28, 2022 Set in the rolling drumlins of County Down with farmland rising and falling on all sides, a couple of weathered donkeys looking on and the Mourne Mountains rising majestically ahead, Magy's Farm, it is safe to say, is not quite ...

New releases from Lydian Nadhaswaran, Sven Gotz and Troy Roberts

by Len Davis
August 5, 2022

New music with Lydian Nadhaswaram from Chromatic Grammatic, Swedish guitarist Sven Gotz, UK based Bassist Mike Forrest Flynn, The Bad Plus, Yellow Jackets, Troy Roberts, and KneebodyPlaylist Lydian Nadhaswaram “Spot" from Chromatic Grammatic (Amly) 00:00 Sven Gotz “The Promise" from Panjoy (Jazzandrecords) 07:07 Mike Forrest Flynn “Strange Weather" from Strange Weather (Self Produced) 14:10 ...