Kneebody

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Lowell 00:00 Tools
For the Fallen 00:00 Tools
Drum Battle 00:00 Tools
Loops 00:00 Tools
How High 00:00 Tools
The Hole 00:00 Tools
I'm Your General 00:00 Tools
Uprising 00:00 Tools
Cha-Cha 00:00 Tools
Platforming 00:00 Tools
They are We 00:00 Tools
Never Remember 00:00 Tools
Trite 00:00 Tools
Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist 00:00 Tools
Home 00:00 Tools
Still Play 00:00 Tools
Move 00:00 Tools
Break Me 00:00 Tools
Thought Not 00:00 Tools
Blue, Yellow, White 00:00 Tools
Rounds 00:00 Tools
Anti-Hero 00:00 Tools
Sleeveless 00:00 Tools
Carry On 00:00 Tools
Not Love 00:00 Tools
Work Hard, Play Hard, Towel Hard 00:00 Tools
The Comedian 00:00 Tools
Roll 00:00 Tools
The Line 00:00 Tools
Teddy Ruxpin 00:00 Tools
The Balloonist 00:00 Tools
E and E 00:00 Tools
Pushed Away 00:00 Tools
By Fire 00:00 Tools
PROFAR 00:00 Tools
Greenblatt 00:00 Tools
You Have One Unheard Message 00:00 Tools
Everywhere From There To There 00:00 Tools
Mikie Lee 00:00 Tools
What Was 00:00 Tools
Spectra 00:00 Tools
Wide Eyed 00:00 Tools
Poton 00:00 Tools
Unforseen Influences 00:00 Tools
The Blind 00:00 Tools
Yes You 00:00 Tools
Flood On 12th Street 00:00 Tools
Ready Set Go 00:00 Tools
Coat Rack 00:00 Tools
Victory Lap 00:00 Tools
You Can Have Your Moment 00:00 Tools
Clime Pt. I 00:00 Tools
Of Course 00:00 Tools
Austin Peralta 00:00 Tools
No Thank You Mr. West 00:00 Tools
Cupcake Baby 00:00 Tools
Held 00:00 Tools
Halfway to Scranton 00:00 Tools
Finlayson 00:00 Tools
Perfect Compromise 00:00 Tools
Looking Back 00:00 Tools
The Entrepreneur 00:00 Tools
High Noon 00:00 Tools
The Politician 00:00 Tools
Sick Talk 00:00 Tools
Notwithstanding 00:00 Tools
Nerd Mountain 00:00 Tools
When It All Comes Down 00:00 Tools
Mahalia 00:00 Tools
Clime Pt. II 00:00 Tools
Desperation Station 00:00 Tools
Mr. Darcy 00:00 Tools
Call 00:00 Tools
Ombré 00:00 Tools
Coatrack 00:00 Tools
Black Hole Sun 00:00 Tools
Chapters 00:00 Tools
A Seaworthy Native 00:00 Tools
Angel Babcock (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
What's My Name 00:00 Tools
Wounds Let in the Light 00:00 Tools
Hold on Longer 00:00 Tools
King Harvest 00:00 Tools
The Non-Profit Prince of Lexington 00:00 Tools
The Slip 00:00 Tools
Hearts Won't Break 00:00 Tools
The Trip 00:00 Tools
Looking Back (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Clime Part 1 00:00 Tools
Second Guess 00:00 Tools
Cha Cha 00:00 Tools
Clime Pt.1 00:00 Tools
Clime Part 2 00:00 Tools
Marvikom 00:00 Tools
The Baseball card song 00:00 Tools
Smooth Jazz 00:00 Tools
Never Remember (feat. Snoop Dogg) 00:00 Tools
Clime Part Two 00:00 Tools
Kneebodi 00:00 Tools
For Mikie Lee 00:00 Tools
Clime Pt.2 00:00 Tools
Sick Talk (feat. Becca Stevens) 00:00 Tools
Songs My Mother Taught Me 00:00 Tools
Work Hard, Play Hard, Towel Ha 00:00 Tools
Break Me (feat. Snoop Dogg) 00:00 Tools
CLIME PART ONE 00:00 Tools
Disappointment #1 00:00 Tools
I'll watch your life to see 00:00 Tools
Unforseen Influennces 00:00 Tools
By Fire (feat. Michael Mayo) 00:00 Tools
New song for quick recovery 00:00 Tools
Disappointment #2 00:00 Tools
Oblarvikom 00:00 Tools
The Comedian >> Wide Eyed 00:00 Tools
Touche 00:00 Tools
Climb Part 1 00:00 Tools
Feldeinsamkeit / In Summer Fields 00:00 Tools
At the River 00:00 Tools
The Cage 00:00 Tools
Hub 00:00 Tools
Finalysation 00:00 Tools
Now Withstanding 00:00 Tools
Climb Part 2 00:00 Tools
Serenity 00:00 Tools
What's My Name (feat. Michael Mayo) 00:00 Tools
The Comedian --> Wide Eyed 00:00 Tools
Clime Pt. 1 (feat. RBX) 00:00 Tools
Wounds let in the light (feat. Becca Stevens) 00:00 Tools
When It All Comes Down (feat. Gretchen Parlato) 00:00 Tools
Austine Peralta 00:00 Tools
Black Hole Sun (feat. Dawn) 00:00 Tools
Hearts Won't Break (feat. Josh Dion) 00:00 Tools
Weil' Auf Mir / Eyes So Dark 00:00 Tools
Antihero 00:00 Tools
No Thank You Mr West 00:00 Tools
In Summer Fields (Feldeinsamkeit) (arr. T. Bleckmann for voice and jazz ensemble) 00:00 Tools
Song 4 00:00 Tools
Hold on Longer (feat. Gerald Clayton) 00:00 Tools
The Housatonic at Stockbridge 00:00 Tools
Everywhere From There to Here 00:00 Tools
The Trip (feat. Gerald Clayton) 00:00 Tools
The New River 00:00 Tools
In the Mornin' 00:00 Tools
Like a Sick Eagle 00:00 Tools
How High (feat. Inara George) 00:00 Tools
The See'r 00:00 Tools
Clime, pt. 2 00:00 Tools
The Comedian/Wide Eyed 00:00 Tools
Cupcake Baby - Daedelus Rework 00:00 Tools
Waltz 00:00 Tools
Weil' auf mir (Eyes so dark) (arr. T. Bleckmann for voice and jazz ensemble) 00:00 Tools
/ Of Course 00:00 Tools
/ Not Withstanding 00:00 Tools
Dum Dee Dum Dum Dee 00:00 Tools
Clime, Part I 00:00 Tools
Angel Babcock 00:00 Tools
King Harvest (feat. Josh Dion) 00:00 Tools
Roll - Daedelus Rethink 00:00 Tools
Bub 00:00 Tools
Wide-Eyed 00:00 Tools
Clime Pt.I 00:00 Tools
Veiled Heart 00:00 Tools
Mr D'arcy 00:00 Tools
Jim White 00:00 Tools
2nd Guess 00:00 Tools
Clime Pt.II 00:00 Tools
Perfect 00:00 Tools
Moody's 10/20/06 Set 1 00:00 Tools
Kneebody-Teddy_Ruxpin 00:00 Tools
After the Snakepit 00:00 Tools
The Clip 00:00 Tools
Go Ahead 00:00 Tools
Kneebody-Call 00:00 Tools
Blue Sox 00:00 Tools
Clime, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Clime_Part_1 00:00 Tools
By Fire (feat. Michael Mayo, music by Hiatus Kaiyote) 00:00 Tools
Three of Us 00:00 Tools
Clime_Part_2 00:00 Tools
Dr. Beauchef - Penguin Mix 00:00 Tools
Kneebody-Held 00:00 Tools
Lookingback 00:00 Tools
Kneebody-No_Thank_You_Mr_West 00:00 Tools
Kaveh 00:00 Tools
Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist (Alan Wilkis Remix) 00:00 Tools
Perfect_Compromise 00:00 Tools
Kneebody MegaMix 00:00 Tools
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Aaron Cohen - Downbeat "Kneebody Creating a New Language" At first, it seems that Kneebody chose a name that intentionally invited anonymity. After speaking to a couple members of the quintet, it becomes clear that they also took a firm stance against presenting a single bandleader. Equally crucial is that they wanted to invent a word that conveys no preconceived musical connotations. "It's a nonsense word that my girlfriend came up with," said saxophonist Ben Wendel. "We wanted a short, memorable word with a nondefinable genre connection." This collaborative dismissal of categorical purity runs throughout Kneebody's self-titled debut on Greenleaf Music. Serene keyboard and woodwind lines are played on top of driving rock drums. Orchestrated electronic noise flows into classically formed melodies. Each musical shift is episodic, rather than merely contrasting. Kneebody's hybrids stem from influences on both American coasts. Wendel met trumpeter Shane Endsley, keyboardist Adam Benjamin and bassist Kaveh Rastegar when they all attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., during the late 1990's. As the individual musicians migrated among different jazz, rock and hip-hop groups, they performed together as a part of a weekly residency at the Temple Bar in Santa Monica, Calif., with drummer Nate Wood. "We basically wanted to do stuff that was less about standard form," Wendel said. All of which requires some rules to make it continually interesting. So Kneebody created their own. Along with the musicians' compositions, they devised a language based on musical cues that each intrumentalist recognizes as a signal for immediately changing direction. Endsley describes how this works in terms of his composition "Break Me". "I wanted to have a middle section where we overdub these different layers and there's these short things going in and out," Endsley said. "So it's faster paced than what would normally be a solo section where it's one person at a time standing. We jump in and out and on top of each other, like people playing drum 'n' bass, but not with that stylistic sound." While most of Kneebody has remained in the Los Angeles area, Endsley lives in Brooklyn. Trumpeter Dave Douglas started paying attention to him a few years ago and then asked if he had any projects for his recently launched Greenleaf Music label. As it happened, Kneebody had just finished recording its CD and Endsley presented it to Douglas. "Their music is a great direction for jazz musicians to go," Douglas said. "It's spontaneous and exciting. The writing is fresh, and the way they integrate it with improvising is unique." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.