KNEEBODY This fierce 5-piece, which used to be known as the Wendel-Endsley Group, features Endsley with Ben Wendel on tenor sax, Adam Benjamin on piano and Rhodes, Kaveh Rastegar on electric bass and Nate Wood (of the rock band The Calling) on drums. (Endsley also gigs as a drummer, but not with this band.) All members write, and what they write is impossibly intricate, often throughcomposed, epic and funky, emphasizing the written detail over the extended solo. Only none of KneeBody’s material is ever written down. Every tune sounds impeccably rehearsed, and yet the band rarely does so. The solo sections, when they do crop up, are not enviable things to blow over. Dousing the listener in a flood of sonic and metric contrasts, pounding, infectious grooves and turn-on-a-dime endings, KneeBody announces itself as a jazz/rock chamber group of the oddest sort. - David Adler
Who is in Kneebody??
-Ben Wendel - Saxophone, Flute, Bassoon
-Shane Endsley - Trumpet, Pedals
-Kaveh Rastegar - Electric/Acoustic Bass, Pedals
-Adam Benjamin - Fender Rhodes, Piano, Keyboards
-Nate Wood - Drums
(for a biography of each musician as well as a list of upcoming shows...please visit the Kneebody website)
If you get a chance to see Kneebody, you will not regret it.
Kneebody Links
Kneebody Web Site
Kneebody on Greenleaf Music
Ben Wendel's site
Nate Wood's site
Kaveh Rastegar's site
Music Connection interview of Ben Wendel
Music Connection interview of Kaveh Rastegar