Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Hardy Boys is a collaborative album from songwriter/composer Emile Mosseri and ...

The avant-garde trailblazer pushes the boat out to glorious extremes with his near-unrecognisable covers of jazz standards Sam Gendel plays like a man trying to erase his instrument. The Californian ...

The prolific jazz musician Sam Gendel has announced a new album, titled Cookup, on which he reimagines songs by a range of R&B greats. The album includes Gendel's interpretation of Beyoncé's "Crazy in ...

The shapeshifting LA-based saxophonist and Brazilian guitarist’s LP is a bossa-tinged celebration of their instruments Few saxophonists are capable of conjuring as many mutant sounds from their ...

During 2021 alone, multi-instrumentalist Sam Gendel collaborated with Vampire Weekend, Maggie Rogers, Moses Sumney, Laurie Anderson, and Mach Hommy, as well as released Notes With Attachments with ...

“2021” is the shortest song on Vampire Weekend‘s great 2019 album Father of the Bride, but they’ve now commissioned two very long covers of it, both of which clock in at exactly 20 minutes and 21 ...

Saxophonist Sam Gendel has sent out an invitation to an unusual sonic Cookup. So what is he serving? Who will be there? Will beat poets merge with experimental musicians in a smoky jazz grotto? Will ...

To be a fan of Sam Gendel is to give yourself over to a relentless wave of music. The 35-year-old Los Angeles-based saxophonist released his latest album Superstore last month and its title reflects ...

Sam Gendel, the eclectically minded Los Angeles jazz saxophonist and producer, just announced a sprawling new album called SUPERSTORE, but that's not stopping him from releasing an entirely different ...

Sam Gendel says recording his new album, "Fresh Bread," was "something I had to do every day just to maintain my sanity." (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Scene: Three men are crammed into a ...

Sometimes what seems at first to be a departure can turn out to be a new arrival. When Larry Goldings and Melinda Sullivan met shortly before the COVID pandemic, they had no way of knowing just how ...

The Los Angeles musician Sam Gendel is an in-demand jazz saxophonist who has played with people like Vampire Weekend, Perfume Genius, and Moses Sumney. (He recently assisted on Sumney's cover of ...