Marco Benevento

Marco Benevento: TigerFace

by Chris May
September 5, 2012

When a renegade instrumentalist such as keyboardist/sonic adventurer Marco Benevento records an album with a relatively big budget, and with the shock-horror addition of a vocalist, it can be bad news for the core audience. Bye bye bohemia, hello mainstream. TigerFace was tracked, not at Benevento's usual Brooklyn location, but at Los Angeles' EastWest studio, where the Beach Boys recorded its 1966 sonic masterpiece Pet Sounds, a studio which does not come cheap; and it features, on two tracks, Kalmia ...

Marco Benevento & Friends: Live in NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency

by Doug Collette
January 16, 2010

Marco Benevento & Friends Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency The Royal Potato Family 2009

Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency makes an ideal companion piece to the other high point of Marco Benevento's solo career so far, Live At Tonic (Ropeadope, 2007) and it features a similar cast of characters, all of whom contribute to bringing out the best in the keyboardist.

It isn't to slight Marco Benevento ...

Marco Benevento: Me Not Me

by Mark Corroto
February 7, 2009

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 reconciliation of the two, has been a long time coming. Not that Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus and Sexmob haven't mined a bit of ...

Marco Benevento: Me Not Me

by Chris May
January 27, 2009

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. The group's follow-up, Me Not Me, continues in the same abandoned and colorific vein as its predecessor. Some of the tracks are ...

Marco Benevento: Invisible Baby & Live at Tonic

by Graham L. Flanagan
March 11, 2008

Marco Benevento Invisble Baby Hyena 2007 Marco Benevento Live at Tonic Ropeadope 2007

Armed with an arsenal including a grand piano and a myriad of vintage synthesizers (not to mention just plain old children's toys), keyboard virtuoso Marco Benevento emerged in the last few years as one of the shining stars ...

Marco Benevento: A New Form of Fusion

by James Taylor
March 3, 2008

With his work has one-half of the Benevento-Russo Duo, Marco Benevento has helped fuse elements of indie rock, improv jazz and jam band aesthetic, exciting nationwide audiences in clean concert halls, smoky bars, and muddy, open-air festivals like Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits. Benevento is a student of the piano, trained at Berklee School of Music, but he seems most comfortable when surrounded on all sides by a collage of black and white keys, assorted buttons and knobs, trigger pads, ...

Marco Benevento: Invisible Baby

by Doug Collette
February 29, 2008

Marco Benevento's often intoxicating Invisible Baby has wide appeal for fans of the keyboardist/composer's work with Joe Russo in The Duo as well as those unfamiliar with his previous solo work. It may even beckon the hard-core jazz fan who's open to suggestion without preconception.

Based on his Live at Tonic triple set last year, it might be fair to assume Benevento would delve deeply either into a traditional jazz trio format or something on the more arcane and abstract ...

Marco Benevento Announces Tour Dates in Support of New LP "TigerFace"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 22, 2012

Marco Benevento has etched out a path across the east coast and midwest this autumn in support of his new LP, TigerFace, due September 11 from The Royal Potato Family. Rolling Stone and WNYC both jumped on the bandwagon early last week to premiere two songs from the upcoming record that feature Rubblebucket's Kalmia Traver on vocals (see above). Live video footage has also just been released of Benevento performing an instrumental version of “This Is How It Goes" during ...
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Marco Benevento to Perform Wednesday, September 26 at Old Rock House

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 19, 2012

Keyboard player Marco Benevento (pictured) is coming to St. Louis to perform at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 26 at the Old Rock House. Benevento, who's originally from New Jersey and now lives in Brooklyn, has connections to both the jazz and jam band scenes. He studied music at Berklee and first began to gain wide recognition in the early 2000s for his duo project with drummer Joe Russo. Since then, he has released six CDs as a solo artist/bandleader, with ...
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Marco Benevento: West Coast Tour Starts Today

Source: JamBase
December 2, 2011

TOUR STARTS TONIGHT IN THE LOFT AT UCSD Marco Benevento is wrapping 2011, as has become tradition, by visiting the West Coast for a nine date tour in December that starts tonight at UCSD's The Loft in San Diego. The pianist will have a new limited pressing 7-inch single available at these shows, as well. Side A is a full on piano rock barn-burner called “Escape Horse" with none other than Mike Gordon on bass and Matt Chamberlain on drums ...
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Marco Benevento: Tour Dates

Source: JamBase
July 14, 2011

TOUR DATES ON HIS OWN, WITH SURPRISE ME MR. DAVIS, GARAGE A TROIS, AND BUSTLE IN YOUR HEDGEROW Marco Benevento has announced a slew of dates on his own, with Surprise Me Mr. Davis, Garage A Trois, and Bustle In Your Hedgerow. Check them out below. Marco is also working on a brand new album expected to be released late next year. Marco Benevento Tour Dates

July 14 | Mexicali Live | Teaneck, NJ July 16 | All Good Festival ...
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Marco Benevento Releases "Greenpoint" Free MP3 & Video, Celebrate Brooklyn Date Announced

Source: Michael Ricci
June 23, 2010

MARCO BENEVENTO Releases “Greenpoint" As Free MP3 & Handmade Video: Featured On NPR's All Things Considered: CELEBRATE BROOKLYN Date Announced

New York, New York -- Brooklyn-based pianist/"sound sculptor" Marco Benevento continues to break ground with his third studio album, Between The Needles & Nightfall. The album's opening track “Greenpoint" has been released as a free mp3 accompanied by Benevento's homemade video for the song.

“'Greenpoint' came from a series of ideas that I wrote on a circuit bent keyboard. It ...
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Marco Benevento Announces North American Tour Dates

Source: Calabro Music
April 1, 2010

MARCO BENEVENTO Announces Spring/Summer Tour Dates New Album, BETWEEN THE NEEDLES & NIGHTFALL, In Stores May 11

Marco Benevento has announced North American tour dates in support of his forthcoming new album, Between The Needles & Nightfall. The Brooklyn-based pianist leads his trio for the majority of a 29-night headline run that includes a handful of April appearances surrounding the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and May dates on the East Coast and Midwest that are capped ...
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Marco Benevento | Live in NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency

Source: Calabro Music
November 13, 2009

MARCO BENEVENTO & FRIENDS Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency

The New DVD release featuring Marco Benevento, Andrew Barr, Billy Martin, Bobby Previte, Brad Barr, DJ Olive, G. Calvin Weston, Reed Mathis, Joe Russo, John Ellis, Kaki King, Marc Friedman, Skerik, Stanton Moore and Steven Bernstein

At the outset of 2008, Marco Benevento took over New York City's then brand new Greenwich Village music venue, Sullivan Hall, for a month-long residency. He would call it home for five Thursday ...
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Marco Benevento Announces New Dates Including Carnegie Hall on June 20

Source: Calabro Music
May 21, 2009

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 trio by invitation of the evening's headliner Jamie Cullum. Benevento will also play a series of rare solo piano shows, including June 11 at ...
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Marco Benevento at SXSW / New Tour Dates

Source: Calabro Music
March 17, 2009

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 indie pop melody obsession with fierce improvisations and a wide-eyed pursuit of analog-drenched aural texture. His new LP Me Not Me focuses its attention ...
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Marco Benevento at Largo at the Coronet

Source: Michael Ricci
February 13, 2009

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 by eccentric saxophone gadfly Skerik and a percussion duo of G. Calvin Weston from John Lurie's Lounge Lizards and Medeski Martin and Wood's Billy ...
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