Music for an Avant-Garde Massage Parlour Ben Goldberg & Kenny Wollesen

• 1 Second Massage 04:41
• 2 9+5 Dub 02:24
• 3 Sleepgrinder 03:26
• 4 Meta Spectacular 02:06
• 5 Kenny’s Idea 02:54
• 6 Super Mysterious 03:11
• 7 Lone 02:27
• 8 Snappy 02:33
• 9 First Massage 04:13
• 10 Kid Glove 03:25
• 11 Anymore 03:59
• 12 Bell Cloud 02:09
• 13 Never Ever 01:53
• 14 Third Massage 04:04
• 15 Somnambulent 03:45
• 16 Fifth Massage 03:26
• 17 First Bicycle 02:38
• 18 Lefty’s Observation 05:01
• 19 Torn Open 01:21
• 20 Cloud Nine 04:09
• 21 Final Cloud 03:04
• Total Runtime 01:06:49

Info for Music for an Avant-Garde Massage Parlour

Music for an Avant-Garde Massage Parlour is the first duo collaboration in 27 years between critically acclaimed composer/clarinet player Ben Goldberg & prolific drummer Kenny Wollesen (Tom Waits, Sean Lennon, Ron Sexsmith, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, John Lurie, Myra Melford, Steven Bernstein, and John Zorn. He is a founding member of the New Klezmer Trio and a member of the Sex Mob and Himalayas groups.)

Clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg was a pupil of the eminent clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo and studied with Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano. Since 1992, when his group New Klezmer Trio "kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music" (SF Chronicle), Ben has shaped a career through curiosity and experimentation across genres and styles. In 2012 he premiered Orphic Machine, a ten movement song-cycle based on the poetical writings of Allen Grossman. The New York Times has noted that Ben’s music “conveys a feeling of joyous research into the basics of polyphony and collective improvising, the constant usefulness of musicians intuitively coming together and pulling apart.” The Downbeat Critics’ Poll named him the #1 Rising Star Clarinetist in both 2011 and 2013. Ben is part of The Out Louds; Unfold Ordinary Mind; Go Home; Ben Goldberg School; and Ben Goldberg Trio with Greg Cohen and Kenny Wollesen. He is a member of the avant-chamber jazz ensemble Tin Hat, Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, and performs in a duo with pianist Myra Melford called DIALOGUE. He currently teaches Jazz Theory and Improvisation in the Music Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ben Goldberg, clarinet
Kenny Wollesen, drums

Ben Goldberg
Clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg grew up in Denver, Colorado. He was a pupil of the eminent clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo and studied with Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano. Since 1992, when his group New Klezmer Trio “kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music” (SF Chronicle), Ben has shaped a career through curiosity and experimentation across many genres and styles. The New York Times has noted that Ben’s music “conveys a feeling of joyous research into the basics of polyphony and collective improvising, the constant usefulness of musicians intuitively coming together and pulling apart.” He has twice been named Rising Star Clarinetist by Downbeat Magazine.

Ben has released over thirty records of his own compositions. His groups include: Invisible Guy; Tin Hat; Orphic Machine; Unfold Ordinary Mind; The Cool Philosophy of Ben Goldberg; DIALOGUE, a duo with pianist / composer Myra Melford; the Ben Goldberg Trio with Greg Cohen and Kenny Wollesen; Ben Goldberg School; and Ben Goldberg’s Brainchild, an eleven piece ensemble performing Ben’s on-the-spot compositions. Ben plays in Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom and is on the Music faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He also runs BAG Production Records.

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