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Ben Wendel Seasons Band at Regattabar

Courtesy of Molly Collins | Posted on August 6, 2018

Where

Regattabar
One Bennett Street
Cambridge, MA
Map
617-395-7757

When

Thu, November 29, 2018
7:30 pm

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Musicians

Ben Wendel
saxophone

About

In 2015, Grammy nominated and award-winning saxophonist, bassoonist, composer Ben Wendel released a music-video art project entitled The Seasons - inspired by a set of twelve piano pieces written and release each month by Tchaikovsky in 1876. Wendel's modern take on the idea was to compose and release twelve original jazz chamber duets in video format on YouTube with modern luminaries Joshua Redman, Luciana Souza, Eric Harland, Julian Lage, and Ambrose Akinmusire, among others. As the videos garnered acclaim among social networks, the project became an unexpected word of mouth success and was featured prominently in The New York Times (Best of 2015), NPR's All Things Considered, and The CBC. ...

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