BEN WENDEL Quartet

Jazz Coterie presents 2X Grammy-nominated saxophonist Ben Wendel with Gabriel Chakarji on piano, Or Bareket on bass, and Ofri Nehemya on drums.

Info & Tickets at JazzCoterie.com | $35 General Admission | FREE for Music Students | 50% for Musicians & Educators

Born in Vancouver, raised in Los Angeles, and is currently living in New York — Ben Wendel enjoys a dynamic career as a performer, composer and producer.
Ben has collaborated and recorded with many greats, including Tigran Hamasyan, Bill Frisell, Terence Blanchard, Antonio Sanchez, Gerald Clayton, Linda May Han Oh, Moonchild, Snoop Dogg, and Prince. Ben is also a founding member of the Grammy nominated group Kneebody.

As a composer, Ben has received an ASCAP Jazz Composer Award, the Chamber Music America “New Works Grant,” and the Victor Lynch-Staunton award by the Canada Council for the Arts. He has also co-written multiple scores for film, television and animated shorts.

Ben has been featured on dozens of recordings and has released seven solo albums. His latest recording, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard, is due out this October. Ben’s critically acclaimed music video project The Seasons, inspired by Tchaikovsky’s works of the same name, was released throughout 2015 and included guests such as Joshua Redman, Jeff Ballard, Mark Turner, Julian Lage, Ambrose Akinmusire and more. It was listed as one of the best albums of 2015 by the NY Times.

A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Ben is a former teacher of Jazz Studies at USC and the New School in NYC. Educational outreach has been a constant in his career with over 300 masterclasses at various colleges and universities around the world.