You Can Have Your Moment

Product Description Kneebody's second W&W album after 2010's Grammy Award-nominated Twelve Songs by Charles Ives! By combining sophisticated compositions and virtuosic improvising, Kneebody has created a diverse, loyal fanbase in the US and Europe. Review Cohesion is the truest constant in the music of Kneebody, a band that inhabits the borderland abutted by post-bop, indie-rock and hip-hop, without seeming to give much thought to the borders. The group released an ethereal album of Charles Ives songs last year, earning an unlikely Grammy nomination in the classical crossover field. You Can Have Your Moment (Winter & Winter), the follow-up, takes a screeching turn in the direction of groove. At the album s core is a lean but darkly woozy rhythm section composed of Adam Benjamin on Fender Rhodes piano, Kaveh Rastegar on electric bass and Nate Wood on drums. The trumpeter Shane Endsley and the saxophonist Ben Wendel make up the front line, though not always with respect to melody. Everyone proves himself a resourceful improviser, but over the course of a dozen thoughtful originals ranging from the sober hum of The Entrepreneur to the stuttering lunge of No Thank You Mr. West their clout registers as a cogent whole. Nate Chinen --New York Times-Sunday Edition