Ben Wendel – “June” (Video)
Ben Wendel is about to take his Seasons Band with him to New York’s Village Vanguard May 14-19th. It’s going to be a highly anticipated week for one of the …
Ben Wendel is about to take his Seasons Band with him to New York’s Village Vanguard May 14-19th. It’s going to be a highly anticipated week for one of the …
Sony Music Masterworks is taking aim at the younger generation of music listeners. In an attempt to make jazz relevant again, it has assembled “a rotating ensemble of today’s leading, …
One of the highlight albums of 2018 is most certainly saxophonist Ben Wendel’s The Seasons, a quintet filling out compositions originally for duets released as a YouTube series in 2015, …
With the fall season’s upcoming releases looking quite promising, saxophonist Ben Wendel’s new album, The Seasons, is definitely one of the albums we are most highly anticipating around here. Based …
Saxophonist Walter Smith III has a new album on the horizon. TWIO to be released February 9 on Whirlwind Recordings, features Smith’s trio comprised of bassist Harish Raghavan and drummer …
In the credits of his new album, One Minute Later, out now on Sunnyside, Diego Barber as listed as playing the classical guitar. Based on this album, this seems true …
Zhenya Strivalev’s recent Robin Goodie album is a great recent release featuring a hard-grooving band (pick it up here). Zhenya brought a band to Small’s Jazz Club a couple of …
Looks like another month has passed us by, meaning a new Ben Wendel duet has surfaced on YouTube. April features drummer extraordinaire Eric Harland on percussions in what amounts to …
Virtuoso guitarist Julian Lage has been involved in a number of great duet albums recently with Fred Hersch, Nels Cline, and Chris Eldridge. He recently released World’s Fair, his solo …
Coming after Jose James’ recent albums, While You Were Sleeping, No Beginning, No End, and Black Magic, with explorations into rock, electronic, R&B, soul, and funk in addition to his …