Kneebody is a New York/Los Angeles quintet of thirtysomethings that have been kicking around for 10 years. Featuring keyboardist Adam Benjamin, trumpeter Shane Endsley, electric bassist Kaveh Rastegar ...

Chapters—the title of Kneebody's 2019 release—has a certain appropriateness, as it definitely marks several new ones for the band. One being that lyric-oriented songs account for nearly half of the ...

Kneebody has had many labels thrown at it, but none seem to fit. Just the same, the members of the transcontinental quintet (saxophonist Ben Wendel, keyboardist Adam Benjamin, drummer Nate Wood and ...

When faced with the prospect of replacing an irreplaceable member of the band, Kneebody found a singular solution to the conundrum. Over the past two decades the Grammy-nominated group established its ...

The five members of Kneebody, who’ll perform at Firehouse 12 in New Haven on Friday, April 4, have fulfilling musical careers outside the band. But they’d probably all agree: What happens in Kneebody ...

From the very beginning, Kneebody resisted all efforts at stylistic categorization. Formed in Los Angeles by five conservatory-trained musicians, the band drew on rock and hip-hop, electronica and new ...

Few bands consistently retain all their original members. Even fewer do so for 16 years. But the makeup of the five-member electronic jazz ensemble known as Kneebody (pronounced “knee,” not “n-e”) has ...

No two projects in jazz speak to the evolution of bop mixing with beats like the L.A. fusion collective Kneebody and NYC's Beat Music. Los Angeles jazz fusion collective Kneebody plays Le Poisson ...

The last time Kneebody played in Denver, in February 2016, the jazz collective dropped in with a frenetic, face-melting performance at the Oriental Theater with electronic beat master Daedelus. “That ...