Ben Wendel - BaRcoDe - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Combining with one of America's premier rhythm teams - bassist Dennis Carroll (Bobby Broom Trio) and drummer George Fludas (Cedar Walton Trio) - Chicago pianist Ben Neuman creates a dynamic debut recording with fresh arrangements of music by Coltrane, Hancock and Horace Silver along with American Songbook classics and an original of his own. Deeply embedded in the tradition, Neuman further pursues new harmonic and melodic concepts as a member of the vibrant Chicago jazz scene while he finishes his degree in philosophy at the University of Chicago.Inch... a deep melodist (who) is a joy to hear... Inch - Larry Kart, Chicago Tribune. Album Tracks 1. 26-2 2. I Fall in Love Too Easily 3. M.J.D 4. Peace 5. Riot 6. Blame It on My Youth 7. You and the Night and the Music 8. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

As the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed Big Band recording, InchClockwise The Music of Cedar Walton,Inch pianist Ben Markley presents this spirited and thoroughly modern quartet session of original compositions, featuring alto saxophone great Greg Osby. Inspired by their developing musical relationship over the last four years, Markley composed a set of music with Osby in mind, followed by a tour and this recording. With the crisp and fully engaged support of bassist Evan Gregor and drummer Dru Heller, the effect of Markley and Osby's fluid rapport creates an inspired argument for further exploration. Inch'Basic Economy' is a vivid presentation of the sound of today, with a healthy nod to the institutions of chance and imagination.Inch - Greg Osby Album Tracks 1. FTG 2. Our Walk 3. Basic Economy 4. Mind Fire 5. Road to Ace 6. Ice-Line 7. Half Dozen 8. Autumn Air

Over five albums as a leader, New York pianist Ben Winkelman has been developing his concept for the piano trio, seeking to strike an elusive balance between composition and improvisation, planning and spontaneity, the intellectual and the intuitive, all with his steadily working group. His featuring of the three instruments, not only as soloists, but as if they were a small orchestra, gave them each integral parts in the compositions expanding the overall voice of the trio. For InchBalance,Inch his sixth recording, Winkelman went into Sear Sound in New York with drummer Obed Calvaire and bassist Matt Penman, artists he highly respected but had yet to perform with, to add new energy and joyful unforeseen outcomes as they explore his ongoing interests in Afro-Cuban, gospel and classical music, but filtered through their collective jazz perspective. Inch... The trio captures the ear, providing thrilling evidence of a stellar contemporary trio to rank among the best... Inch - ALL ABOUT JAZZ Album Tracks 1. BX12 Part One [6 54] 2. April [5 14] 3. Wheels [5 47] 4. Santiago [5 24] 5. Merri Creek [4 30] 6. Window Shopping [7 33] 7. The Trip [4 10] 8. Fala Baixio [5 52] 9. Bye-Ya [6 31] 10. BX12 Part Two [5 49]