Jazzheads Avant Wot Not

by Ari Hoenig

supported by

	/

Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Physical Cd shipped to your house.

Includes unlimited streaming of Jazzheads Avant Wot Not via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 7 days

2 remaining

$20 USD or more
Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$10 USD or more

1.	Near Natal Funk 08:44	buy track
2.	Blur 06:36	buy track
3.	M.D. (Miles Davis) 06:32	buy track
4.	Hollands Tunnel 06:32	buy track
5.	Speedracer 05:26	buy track
6.	Swamp 07:36	buy track
7.	Sure why not 07:57	buy track
8.	Bluelines 04:43	buy track
9.	Fourth wold 12:02	buy track
10.	Triangulus 03:33	buy track

about

Jazzheads-Avant Wot Not—the reissued 1999 Philly/Brooklyn underground jazz-funk-drum & bass classic is back!
Featuring Ari Hoenig, Tim Motzer, Chris Cuzme, and Ben Bocardo.

credits

released January 1, 1998

Jazzheads-Avant Wot Not—the reissued 1999 Philly/Brooklyn underground jazz-funk-drum & bass classic is back!

Featuring Ari Hoenig, Tim Motzer, Chris Cuzme, and Ben Bocardo.

Jazzheads - Avant Wot Not (1k), the first standard-issue CD on Tim Motzer's label 1k. Recorded in December of 1998 and re-released in the fall 2008 to celebrate the bands 10 year anniversary, and with the added promise of some long-overdue live shows. This 10-track effort (made up of super jazz drummer Ari Hoenig, guitarist/composer Tim Motzer, saxophonist Chris Cuzme, and bassist Ben Bocardo) is a nimble, all instrumental excursion into the disparate corners of all that boogies, simmers and swings, from acid jazz to improv, from drum n bass to funk. The playing in dizzyingly fine throughout. But what's most compelling about avant wot not is its unhampered sense of fun, an "up" vibe that carries listeners over some rough compositional patches and murky stylistic transitions.

That giddy quotient should come as no surprise, seeing as Jazzheads were, in essence, born out of a simple love of playing. "Ari Hoenig and myself kind of met through the house band at Silk City," Motzer recalls. "He used to come out and listen every Monday night. One night we started talking, and he said, 'Hey man, you want to... more
credits
released September 9, 2008

Ari Hoenig (drums, jingle stick, shells)
Tim Motzer (guitars, guitar synth, banjo, mandolin)
Chris Cuzme (saxophones, didgeridoo)
Ben Bocardo (upright electric and fender bass)

with special guests:
Dan Sears (trumpet, and flugelhorn on hollands tunnel, fourth world + triangulus)
Philip Yaeger (trombone on hollands tunnel, fourth world + triangulus)
Jim Hamilton (percussion on near fatal funk)

Recorded and mixed by Brian Boland at Rittenhouse Recording Philadelphia December 1998 assisted by Jim Hamilton. Mastered by Brian Boland at Nautica. Produced by Tim Motzer for 1k Recordings

Cover art painting by Tim Motzer & Ellie Perez
Design: Jon Wood & Tim Motzer

Copyright 1999/2013 1k Recordings Inc. All rights reserved.
© 1999 & ℗ 1999 1k Recordings Inc.
reissue © 2013 & ℗ 2013 1k Recordings Inc.
Published by one k music co. 1999 (BMI)
all rights reserved.
license
all rights reserved

license

about

Ari Hoenig New York, New York

Ari Hoenig is a jazz drummer, composer and educator known for his unusual and intense approach to drumming emphasizing complex rhythms in direct harmony with other group members.
Ari is widely noted particularly for his drumming not being relegated to just keeping tempo, or being a side issue to the music he plays in, but rather for elevating drumming as an indispensable part of the performance. ... more

contact / help

Contact Ari Hoenig

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Ari Hoenig, you may also like:

I'm About, Still.
by Kwesi Yvorra

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 1, 2022
go to album
Wax & Wane
by Brandee Younger

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 1, 2016
go to album
Rhombal
by Stephan Crump

The bassist who's spent much of his career pushing against jazz traditions finds value in embracing them, to some degree, with a nimble quartet of fellows. Bandcamp Album of the Day Dec 7, 2016
go to album
HEARTBEAT
by Alexander Flood

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jun 3, 2020
go to album
CHILDHOOD
by Hiroko Otsuka

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jun 20, 2023
go to album
Guilty Pleasures (feat. Nate Smith)
by Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter

Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling teams up with guitarist Charlie Hunter and guest drummer Nate Smith for a playful EP of six dynamic covers. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 2, 2023
go to album
Panamá 77
by Daniel Villarreal

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 22, 2022
go to album