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Jared Gold: Supersonic
by Chris May
The organ trio, back in the day at the sharp end of sonic technology--electric organs! electric guitars! special effects!--sounds in 2009 the most dated of hard bop retentions. Compare Jimmy Smith's Blue Note collection, A New Sound - A New Star, recorded in 1956, with many new millennial outings in the style, and try to find ...
Icons Among Us: An Epic Jazz Documentary, Part 2
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 This seminal documentary continues on the second CD with a scene straight out of a typical Gotham jazz collaboration: singer Gretchen Parlato and pianist Aaron Parks are together in a NYC apartment working out a vocal arrangement. Gretchen is heard commenting on the vagaries of jazz singing and the ...
Marco Benevento Announces New Dates Including Carnegie Hall on June 20
Brooklyn, NY -- Having just wrapped a ten city east coast tour, Marco Benevento quickly announces a new run of summer club shows and festival appearances in June and July. The Brooklyn-based pianist's upcoming dates will be highlighted by his first ever appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York City on June 20, opening with his ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Episode Two: 12 Notes in Real Time
by John Kelman
Episode One | Episode Two | Episode Three | Episode Four ---> Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseEpisode Two: 12 Notes in Real Time The Documentary ChannelApril 27, 2009, 09:00-10:00PMParadigm Studio2009After a promising launch on April 20, 2009, with ...
Marco Benevento at SXSW / New Tour Dates
MARCO BENEVENTO Appearing “Live" @ SXSW Friday, March 20 @ The Elephant Room | 11:40 PM Brooklyn-based pianist and sonic explorer Marco Benevento first came to national attention as one half of the NYC downtown experimental noisemakers, The Benevento-Russo Duo. Over the last two years, however, he's been turning heads with his post-jazz trio that merges ...
Marco Benevento at Largo at the Coronet
Anticipation was running high for young keyboardist Marco Benevento's appearance at Largo at the Coronet Wednesday night. Midway though a monthlong residency at the esteemed Oakland jazz club Yoshi's promoting his eclectic new album, Me Not Me, Benevento rolled into town leading an adventurous supergroup of sorts from a Bonnaroo- friendly branch of experimental jazz. Joined ...
Marco Benevento: Me Not Me
by Mark Corroto
It comes as no surprise that pop and jazz performers would attempt to reconcile their relationship. After the honeymoon period that was Tin Pan Alley, marriage wrecker hard bop, followed by the extra-marital affair with free jazz, ended things quite poorly. The children survived and played fusion, but the marriage was over. Certainly the reunion, perhaps ...
Innerviewworld.com Interview: Marco Benevento
Marco Benevento is a young keyboardist whose jazz-rooted work has expanded to include indie rock, jam band and experimental post-rock influences. Born in 1977 and raised in the northern New Jersey town of Livingston, Benevento studied piano and befriended an aspiring drummer named Joe Russo in a junior high detention hall. After high school, while Russo ...
Marco Benevento: Me Not Me
by Chris May
It's hard, even one year and countless spins on, to listen to keyboard player Marco Benevento's gimcrack riot of sound “The Real Morning Party" without breaking into a huge grin, if not out-loud laughter. The track, from the Benevento trio's debut album, Invisible Baby (Hyena, 2008), explodes with an irresistible love of life. ...
Marco Benevento Announces West Coast Tour Dates / Yoshi's Residency
MARCO BENEVENTO Announces February Residency at Yoshi's Oakland Plus Additional West Coast Tour Dates Special guests including Scott Amendola (Nels Cline Singers), Andrew Barr (Land Of Talk), Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin & Wood), Reed Mathis, Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Joe Russo (The Duo), Skerik and more. Brooklyn, NY - Marco Benevento will call Northern California home in ...
