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Kenny Wollesen

Drummer Kenny Wolleson performed on over 30 recordings during the 1990s and, as the decade progressed, gained increasing renown as a musician of astonishing versatility, skill, and ingenuity. He has recorded and toured with all kinds of musicians, from Tom Waits (Wolleson performs on Waits' 1993 collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Black Rider), to Sean Lennon, to Ron Sexsmith (Wolleson performs on his second album, Other Songs). A founding member of the New Klezmer Trio, Wollesen is also all over N.Y.C.'s downtown jazz and avant-garde musicians' recordings, and has been so active as to tour with Bill Frisell and Myra Melford in the same month

So Far So Good

By Welf Dorr

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: So Far So Good; Keep On Keeping On; Eternity; Impatience; Red Lebanese; Painful Long Goodbye; Crazy S; Bushwick 16; Sweet Dissonance.

All Species Parade

By Jenny Scheinman

Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ornette Goes Home; Every Bear That Ever There Was; Jaroujiji; The Sea Also Rises; All Species Parade; Shutdown Stomp; House Of Flowers; The Cape; With Sea Lions; Nocturne For 2020.

LATRALA

By Kenny Wollesen

Label: Otherly Love
Released: 2024
Track listing: Agora; Fifty Five; Sam; Johnny Garr; Empress; Uptown; Heart In Hand; Serious Drinking; Sea Change; Cavalier Da Baton.

Jenny Scheinman Brings the Experience of Awe

by Dean Nardi
November 20, 2024

Play your violin for us like that wild, joyful hippie girl. You who look as if you might have come from the steppes of Russia instead of the Lost Coast, a remote region of northern California prone to earthquakes and mudslides. You who galloped into school on a snorting mare, its hair used to string the ...

Berke Can Özcan & Jonah Parzen-Johnson: It Was Always Time

by Karl Ackermann
October 15, 2024

In 2023, baritone saxophonist and electronics artist Jonah Parzen-Johnson performed at a benefit concert in Istanbul following a devastating earthquake that took tens of thousands of lives in Turkey and Syria. Parzen-Johnson had worked with diverse colleagues ranging from John Zorn to Pearl Jam, but each of his recordings had been a solo project. Minutes before ...

Slow Poke: Listen Here

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 10, 2024

Here is a track in which the simmer might be low, but the temperature is definitely very high. “Listen Here" is a composition which Eddie Harris wrote and played with his, usual, fat groove. This, however, is a sultrier rendition by a band that made the savoring of each note, and the development of a hypnotic ...

Ornette Goes Home

September 11, 2024

Album: All Species Parade
By Jenny Scheinman
Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2024
Duration: 09:32

Jesse Harris takes things as they come

by Leo Sidran
September 5, 2024

Jesse Harris belongs to a generation of New York singer songwriters who came of age in the late nineties. He has made over 20 solo albums that walk the line between folk, jazz, pop, Brazilian and art rock. He's also a much sought after co writer and collaborator who has written songs for and or with ...

Kenny Wollesen: LATRALA

by Glenn Astarita
August 29, 2024

When a February 2022 gig at John Zorn's experimental showcase The Stone was unexpectedly canceled due to Covid protocol, Wollesen seized the lemon juicer and booked the band into Shahzad Ismaily's famed Figure 8 studio in Brooklyn for the following two days. The session was engineered by Lily Wen and produced by Will Shore, a composer ...