Results for "Kneebody"

Ben Wendel: The Seasons

by Mike Jurkovic
December 2, 2018

Stepping out as he occasionally does from the genre-mashing ensemble Kneebody, Grammy-nominated saxophonist / bassoonist Ben Wendel takes up the challenge of interpreting the seasons as they exist in this time of climate upheaval and delivers the dynamic, visceral The Seasons. In 2015, inspired by Tchaikovsky's “The Seasons," Wendel set about writing and performing ...

Kaveh Rastegar: Light Of Love

by Dan Bilawsky
September 23, 2018

Kaveh Rastegar's name might not register with many people, but a significant number of music fans from different camps have likely heard his low-end thrumming on bass and experienced the power of his work. The anchoring element for artists as dissimilar as John Legend and Beck, the creative weight ballasting the music of the pioneering post-fusion ...

New Protest Music

by Emily Jones
January 11, 2018

Jazz has a rich history as protest music, but it seems that, over the past year or so, this message in the music has come to the fore again. This month's mix captures the current wave of protest in jazz, where every tune has a story to tell. First up is an atmospheric track ...

2017: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 5, 2018

A year of achievements, challenges to gender inequality, scandal and losses The year 2017 was quite something for the jazz world. Incidents or discussions of misogyny and sexual misconduct bubbled up even before the #MeToo phenomenon developed. Beyond that, woman musicians made significant contributions to the genre. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage ...

Il meglio del 2017 secondo Libero Farne

by Libero Farnè
January 4, 2018

Per quanto mi riguarda le novità più sorprendenti le ho ascoltate a Bolzano (Warped Dreamer e il trio In Love With con i fratelli Ceccaldi) e a Saalfelden (Eve Risser e Roberto Negro). L'Europa si conferma quindi una fucina di idee originali e di notevole spessore. E l'America? Più dei nomi emergenti (James Brandon Lewis, Joshua ...

Anti-Hero

By Kneebody

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: For the Fallen; Uprising; Drum Battle; Anti-Hero; The Balloonist; For Mikie Lee; Profar; Carry On; Yes You; Austin Peralta.

Kneebody at Jazzmi festival in Milan

by Roberto Cifarelli
November 23, 2017

Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal: Hide Ye Idols

by Troy Collins
November 19, 2017

Forward-thinking drummer Vinnie Sperrazza has proven to be an exceptionally creative and magnanimous bandleader; Hide Ye Idols expands well beyond the imaginative inroads made on Apocryphal, his impressive 2014 debut for Loyal Label. Conveying a distinctive group sound, the original lineup featured on his first album--alto saxophonist Loren Stillman, guitarist Brandon Seabrook, and bassist Eivind Opsvik--returns, ...

JazzMI - II Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
November 16, 2017

JazzMI -II Edizione Milano 02.11 -12.11.2017 “Che bello vedere Milano sveglia, finalmente!" Queste parole, colte in una conversazione tra appassionati in coda per uno dei tanti concerti di questa seconda edizione di JazzMI, ben fotografano il vero punto di forza del festival. Che non è tanto l'aver proposto ...

Tarik Abouzied: Happy Orchestra: Baba

by Paul Rauch
September 14, 2017

Go ahead, laugh it up. After all, how could you possibly take seriously a band called Happy Orchestra, that uses the classic yellow happy face as a logo in this visceral world of jazz we inhabit? How could this leader, a drummer in fact, produce music that is both danceable, and satisfying to the elite jazz ...