![]() ![]() It’s exactly that innocent childlike desire to play the piano and unbridled passion for musical exploration which led Benevento to set up shop every Wednesday in November 2006 for a residency at Tonic, the recently shuttered New York City improvisational music Mecca. Holding court behind a dizzying array of vintage keyboards, upright and toy pianos, pedals, samplers and other circuit bent gadgets, Benevento has established a reputation as one of the most visionary young keyboardists to emerge in the last decade.īeyond all the accolades and hype, however, is a supremely-inspired, ever-curious 29-year old artist whose spirit remains rooted in the musicians he studied under and played alongside when first starting out teachers like Kenny Werner, Billy Hart, Brad Mehldau and Joanne Brackeen and band-mates like Bob Moses, Ari Hoeing, Terreon Gully, Adam Dietch and DJ Olive. Marco Benevento is best known as one half of the Benevento/Russo Duo, the acclaimed instrumental indie rock, post jazz experimentalists, who’ve earned a legion of fans performing at high profile events like Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Fuji Rock Festival and Bonnaroo, while drawing rave reviews at publications ranging from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork. Watch Marco Benevento – Live At Tonic Video Teaser Here ![]() But it gives way to a lilting tune called 'Record Book' to bring it all back down again, only to go into the cosmos with a worthy jazz cover of 's 'Fearless,' and the - tune 'Sabbath,' that reflects the early metal band powerfully - though the original band could never have played more than the opening riff of this tune.A Three CD Set Documenting A Month Long Residencyįeaturing MIKE GORDON (Phish) DAVE DREIWITZ (Ween) CLAUDE COLEMAN (Ween) STEVEN BERNSTEIN (Sex Mob) MATT CHAMBERLAIN (Tori Amos) REED MATHIS (JFJO) JOE RUSSO (Benevento/Russo Duo) BOBBY PREVITE (COTW) MIKE DILLON (Les Claypool) BRAD BARR (The Slip) and SCOTT METZGER (Rana) The beautiful trio performance 'Clouds (Quasi)' with and becomes an outlaw jam in its nine-minute length. ![]() He studied with the best and what's on offer here is his best. The spirit of adventure is all over, but so is the discipline and precision of as a pianist. Is an outrageously talented musician he's equally comfortable playing jazz, vanguard or classical music as well as popular tunes - along with the classic tunes, check the covers of songs. It is impossible to capture the wonderful spirit Ropeadope did on this set, which indeed was the spirit of Tonic itself. ![]()
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