(LP) Ben Wendel - All One

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Release Date: 051923
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Vinyl LP pressing. All One is the inspired, multilayered and guest-starring new album from the master saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel - with every song featuring a different special guest forming a truly all-star lineup across the album.

Grammy nominated saxophonist Ben Wendel is undoubtedly a rising star in the jazz, and music, firmament.

Ben Wendel was born in Vancouver, Canada and raised in Los Angeles. Currently living in Brooklyn, NY, he has enjoyed a varied career as a performer, composer and producer.  Highlights include tours, performances and/or recordings with artists such as Tigran Hamasyan, Antonio Sanchez, Gerald Clayton, Eric Harland, Taylor Eigsti, Linda May Han Oh, Moonchild, Louis Cole, Daedelus, Snoop Dogg and the artist formerly known as Prince. Ben is a founding member of the Grammy nominated group Kneebody.

As a composer, he has received an ASCAP Jazz Composer Award, the 2008, 2011 and 2017 Chamber Music America “New Works Grant” and was awarded the Victor Lynch-Staunton award by the Canada Council For The Arts. He also co-wrote the score for John Krasinski’s adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.”

His first album under his own name for Edition Records, ‘High Heart’ (2020) refers to the human desire to connect and express through new mediums at the risk of feeling isolated and cut off.

TRACKLIST;

  • 1. I Loves You Porgy (Featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant) 5.42
  • 2. Wanderers (Featuring Terence Blanchard) 7.33
  • 3. Throughout (Featuring Bill Frisell) 6.48
  • 4. Speak Joy (Featuring Elena Pinderhughes) 7.45
  • 5. Tenderly (Featuring José James) 6.30
  • 6. In Anima (Featuring Tigran Hamasyan) 8.02
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