Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sam Gendel says recording his new album, "Fresh Bread," was "something I had to do every day just to maintain my sanity." (Robert ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Hardy Boys is a collaborative album from songwriter/composer Emile Mosseri and jazz polymath Sam Gendel. Primarily written and recorded in a few sittings of improvisational work, the album touches on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Los Angeles-based alto saxophonist Sam Gendel produced every sound on this album live, using only his saxophone. But you would be unlikely to think so after hearing it. Opening track "Anemone Swerve" ...

Halfway through “Malcolm & Marie,” a black-and-white Netflix drama that was shot during the pandemic, the dialogue pauses—the film consists of almost nothing but dialogue—so that viewers can listen to ...