KNEEBODY

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Kneebody is an American band formed in 2001, consisting of Adam Benjamin on keyboards, Shane Endsley on trumpet, Ben Wendel on tenor sax, Kaveh Rastegar on bass, and Nate Wood on drums. They are "a resolutely un-pindownable band" acclaimed for their eclectic style, which "uses a common jazz instrumentation to make a somewhat less common amalgam of urban-signifying genres, from electro-pop to punk-rock to hip-hop.

Ben Wendel, Shane Endsley, Adam Benjamin, and Kaveh Rastegar met in the late 1990s as students at the Eastman School of Music. Benjamin later transferred to CalArts, where he met Nate Wood. After graduating Eastman, Wendel and Rastegar moved to Los Angeles, and the band got its start at the Temple Bar and The Vic in Santa Monica, California, where they played a weekly residency. The name of the band was a nonsense word invented by Wendel's girlfriend, so that the band had no clear leader
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KNEEBODY Wendel album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Wendel
Eclectic Fusion 2002
KNEEBODY Kneebody album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Kneebody
Nu Jazz 2005
KNEEBODY Low Electrical Worker album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Low Electrical Worker
Nu Jazz 2007
KNEEBODY You Can Have Your Moment album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
You Can Have Your Moment
Nu Jazz 2010
KNEEBODY The Line album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
The Line
Nu Jazz 2013
KNEEBODY Kneebody & Daedelus : Kneedelus album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Kneebody & Daedelus : Kneedelus
Eclectic Fusion 2015
KNEEBODY Anti-Hero album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Anti-Hero
Eclectic Fusion 2017
KNEEBODY Chapters album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Chapters
Eclectic Fusion 2019

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KNEEBODY By Fire album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
By Fire
RnB 2019

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KNEEBODY Live Volume One album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live Volume One
Nu Jazz 2006
KNEEBODY Live at Le Crescent album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live at Le Crescent
Fusion 2022

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