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Stream Bassist Ross McHenry’s “Forest Dance” Featuring Ben Wendel (Premiere)

January 21, 2020 By Sébastien Hélary

Ross McHenry Forest Dance

Composer, bass player and producer Ross McHenry hails from Australia and has taken upon himself the noble mission of advancing modern Australian cultural identity within the context of an increasingly interconnected global musical landscape. Using his own brand of self-proclaimed “creative music” rooted in jazz, Afrobeat, contemporary electronic and chamber, McHenry’s discourse … [Read more...]

Anthony Dean-Harris’ Favorite Jazz Albums of the Decade

December 23, 2019 By Anthony Dean-Harris

Anthony Dean-Harris Favorite Jazz Albums Decade

There's a fullness in ten years. A lot of work, if rather relentlessly done, can really make a discernible impact. Ten years ago, folks were making all the talk as rather cyclically that jazz was dead. It was such an exhausting conversation. Folks were around making this music, obviously. It couldn't be that dead. The problem was in the awareness and the tweaking of the … [Read more...]

Stream Kneebody’s “When It All Comes Down” featuring Gretchen Parlato from New Album ‘Chapters’

October 9, 2019 By Sébastien Hélary

Kneebody, the innovative jazz group made up of trumpeter Shane Endsley, saxophonist Ben Wendel, keyboardist Adam Benjamin and the extraordinary Nate Wood taking the simultaneous roles of drummer and bassist, is back with their seventh album, Chapters, coming October 18th to Edition Records.“The title references the episodic nature of life and the way our personal stories … [Read more...]

Linda May Han Oh Performs at the 2019 Montreal International Jazz Festival

July 4, 2019 By Sébastien Hélary

Linda May Han Oh's prolific career never ceases to amaze, and her ability to keep raising the bar every step of the way is nothing short of remarkable. Widely regarded as one of the luminaries of the current New York City jazz scene, which, let's face it, serves as the de facto gold standard for the rest of the world, Oh has been on a rapid ascent which has shown no sign of … [Read more...]

Ben Wendel – “June” (Video)

May 1, 2019 By Anthony Dean-Harris

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 best works of 2018. To lead up to it all, Wendel has released one last music video from The Seasons, for the song June, as usual directed by Alex Chaloff and showing this band with just as much beauty as the music they're … [Read more...]

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