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Kneedelus at Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Courtesy of Bennett Jackson | Posted on February 14, 2016
Where
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320-2 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz, CA
Map
831-427-2227
When
Thu, March 3, 2016
7:00 pm
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Collaboration is one of the pillars of jazz. Whether it’s musicians in a group or combo playing off of each other, or a meeting between artists or bands from different genres. The Los Angeles label Brainfeeder is devoted to the latter and has recently released the album Kneedelus, a union of the chamber-groove ensemble Kneebody and the atmospheric beat alchemist Daedelus. Although Kneebody and Daedelus separately would fall under different genres, this collaboration feels like a melding that was meant to be. Part of this may be their collaborative history: Ben Wendel, Kneebody’s saxophonist first met Daedelus in high school, when he went by Alfred Darlington and played bass...