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Daniel Bennett Group: We Are the Orchestra

Read "We Are the Orchestra" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
January 3, 2026

To step into Daniel Bennett's music is to agree, quietly and without protest, to loosen your grip on the obvious. You enter as you might a half-lit room where conversations are already underway, familiar yet oddly angled, tethered to reality but leaning just far enough away from it to feel enchanted. This album opens that door ...

Album

We Are the Orchestra

By Daniel Bennett

Label: Manhattan Daylight Media Group
Released: 2018
Track listing: Loose Fitting Spare Tire; I'm Not Nancy; Gold Star Mufflers; Theme From Ernani; Refinancing for Elephants; Inside Our Pizza Oven; Theme from Il Trovatore; Carl Finds His Way.

Article: Album Review

Daniel Bennett: We Are the Orchestra

Read "We Are the Orchestra" reviewed by James Fleming

by James Fleming
October 14, 2018

The music rolls out of the speakers as a breeze shimmers over the prairie. Evoking scenes of broad, open grasslands. The Daniel Bennett Group's We Are The Orchestra plays out like a collage of genres and cultures: Italian opera, American jazz and folk, tinges of East Africa. A vivid tapestry woven from disparate threads. That rather ...

Article: Album Review

Daniel Bennett Group: We Are the Orchestra

Read "We Are the Orchestra" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
September 29, 2018

Composer/woodwind player Daniel Bennett and his group make music that cheerfully disregards genre conventions, especially purist notions of what “jazz" can be. There are generous doses of instrumental rock: previous album Sinking Houseboat Confusion (Manhattan Daylight Media Group, 2016) even made a point of adding surf rock to the mix. Most of their albums have been ...