Sam Gendel
Sam Gendel is an American saxophonist, composer and producer based in Los Angeles. He plays mainly alto saxophone and belongs to the Los Angeles ambient jazz scene. He is known for Satin Doll (2020), his first album for Nonesuch, and for many records made with other musicians. Gendel made Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar (2018) with bassist Sam Wilkes, followed by a second volume in 2021. His Nonesuch albums include DRM (2020) and COOKUP (2023), recorded with Gabe Noel and Philippe Melanson.
Warm Waves
‘Warm Waves’ first appeared in 2020, ten years after Turn On The Sunlight’s debut self-titled album was first released in Japan. During that decade, Turn On The Sunlight’s Jesse Peterson and Mia Doi Todd welcomed their first child and co-founded a mu…
Dream Trio
Sam Gendel is known for his work with saxophones and wind controllers. Benny Bock is a keyboardist, composer, producer and sound designer from Oakland, California. Hans Kjorstad is a musician and composer in the field of contemporary microtonal music…
The Doober
Sam Gendel on C-Melody Saxofone and Wilkes on Fender P-Bass, arrangements of selected material and original compositions - a document of specific variations in instrumentation, sound, and repertoire, with a focus on melody, execution of arrangement, …
Sam Gendel & Shin Sasakubo
Also known as the leader of the jazz trio Inga, Sam Gendel is an L.A. saxophonist who has developed a free and unique sound that has been described as psychedelic, outsider, and meditative, and Shin Sasakubo is a Chichibu-based guitarist. A new album…
Music For Saxofone & Bass Guitar (Tape)
jazz milestone from Los Angeles-based musicians Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes. Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar is a collection of recordings captured live on a Marantz PMD-720 4-Track Cassette Recorder at Mh Zh and Pacê between November 2017 - February …
Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar More Songs
The follow-up to 2018's underground jazz milestone from Los Angeles-based musicians Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes. Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar More Songs collects nine additional songs from the duo. Performed, recorded, mixed and produced by Sam Gende…
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Tam Tikri Objektai Erdvèje
Sam Gendel and Ugnė Uma's Tam Tikri Objektai Erdvėje album sketches a layered, melismatic and intertextual view on what both performers define as a lightness of being. Ugnė Uma's musical stance is influenced by experimental poetry and Lithuania's 20t…
blueblue
blueblue is a concise, tightly wound song suite by multi-instrumentalist Sam Gendel whose 14 tracks each correspond to a pattern within sashiko, a traditional style of Japanese embroidery.
Superstore
34-song Superstore is the Sam Gendel all genre follow-up album to 2021's 52-song Fresh Bread. Superstore is more unreleased music from the enigmatic producer/saxophonist collected from personal archives of solo recordings and collaborations in variou…
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