Marco Benevento session on NPR

MARCO BENEVENTO appeared on NPR affiliate WGBO for an interview. During the half hour session he performed songs from his new release Me Not Me.

From NPR: "By the end of the session, you'll discover something about Benevento's laboratory experiment in modern music. You might not call it jazz, but you might hear it for what it is - a cross between the mental floss of jazz improvisation and the cutting-edge sonority of popular keyboard music."

Hear the session: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103161978

New Releases by Jeff "Tain" Watts and Marco Benevento

Today marks the release of two new albums by Tree Lawn Artists JEFF "TAIN" WATTS' and MARCO BENEVENTO. Tain's new CD, WATTS features CHRISTIAN McBRIDE, TERENCE BLANCHARD, and BRANFORD MARSALIS. Marco's new CD, Me Not Me features Marco's regular cohorts REED MATHIS (JFJO, The Slip), MATT CHAMBERLAIN, and ANDREW BARR. Both discs are great, and we congratulate both artists on successful independent releases. Both projects have availability in 2009>2010. Contact eric@treelawn.org for more information about the WATTS project, and nate@treelawn.org for more information about the Marco Benevento Trio

Tree Lawn Artists' 2009 APAP Showcases

Tree Lawn Artists will once again attending the 2009 APAP Conference at booth #549 in Americas Hall I. We will be presenting the following showcases (text version below for your convenience):




Eliane Elias
TUE-SAT, JAN 6-10
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
7:30 & 9:30 p.m. nightly
plus 11:30 p.m. on Saturday
Broadway & 60th St.

Tim Ries — The Rolling Stones Project
FRI, JAN 9
Jazz Standard
7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 p.m.
116 E. 27th St.

Marco Benevento Trio
SAT, JAN 10
Winter Jazzfest, Sullivan Hall
10:20 p.m.
214 Sullivan St.
btw. Bleecker & W. 3rd

Watts featuring Jeff "Tain"
Watts, Terence Blanchard,
Christian McBride &
Prometheus Jenkins
SAT, JAN 10
(Le) Poisson Rouge, 11:55 p.m.
$25 for all APAP badge holders
158 Bleecker St.

Christian Scott
FRI & SUN, JAN 9 & 11
Export NOLA Showcase
Sullivan Hall, 10:40 p.m. (1/9)
& 9:50 p.m. (1/11)
214 Sullivan St.
btw. Bleecker & W. 3rd

Erin Bode
SUN, JAN 11
Birdland, 6:00 p.m.
315 W. 44th St. btw. 8th & 9th

Karrin Allyson
SUN, JAN 11
Birdland, 7:00 p.m.
315 W. 44th St. btw. 8th & 9th