New Release From Alison Wedding “This Dance” (GroundUp GRO 112)

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Alison Wedding started her music career at age two, singing for family and friends in the living room. But it was not until she walked into a jazz ensemble at her fine arts high school in Dallas, Texas, that she was first introduced to jazz. The harmonies, chord progressions, and rhythms fascinated her. She listened constantly to horn players, learning their solos, and with the help of her mentor Dave Alexander, Alison began to explore improvisation, which has become one of her greatest skills. [Excerpt | Bandframe.com]-

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Ben Wendel -][- FRAME – [Sunnyside Records, 2012] –

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Ben Wendel, FRAME

Ben Wendel -][- FRAME –Mp3– [Sunnyside Records, 2012] –

Iconoclastic composer Frank Zappa once wrote, “The most important thing in art is the frame… without this humble appliance, you can’t know where the art stops and the real world begins.”

With his second solo album, Frame, saxophonist, bassoonist and composer Ben Wendel presents a gallery show of nine new pieces that approach that “humble appliance” — the frame — from multi-faceted angles: a snapshot of a pair of French patrons of the arts (“Jean and Renata”); an exotic portrait in rhythm (“Backbou”); the harmonic reframing of a masterpiece (“Con Alma”). But ultimately what the album amounts to is a framing of the self — a self-portrait by an artist who’s come to define his own singular voice.