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Benet's second album, released January 2009 "IN THE LAND OF OO-BLA-DEE" does not disappoint. As a follow up to his first, "CLICHES (FOR ANOTHER DAY)", the writing and playing from this powerful and multifaceted performer is very refreshing.
"Fast-rising young pianist BENET McLEAN has a piano technique that seems to bring Art Tatum's music into the 21st century, drawing on classical music, postbop, hip-hop & beyond." The Guardian
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Infused with the blistering - occasionally downright frenetic - energy characterising the former subgenre and leavened with bursts of the clattery street beats and drawled rhyming vocals associated with the latter, McLean's 2008 album has been a big success live. The band features McLean on Vocals, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano playing alongside
JASON YARDE on soprano, alto and baritone Saxophones, CHRIS DODD on Bass and TROY MILLER on Drums.
McLean himself is an engaging frontman and an extravagantly gifted pianist, capable of executing dazzling but elegant runs in his solo capacity and of establishing satisfyingly deep grooves in his accompanying role. This is a taut, cohesive band with its finger firmly on the contemporary pulse.
London born pianist & vocalist BENET McLEAN has been involved in music since the age of 3. He began on violin, (a quarter-sized model of course!), and whilst training to become potentially a concert violinist, he also soon became interested in other forms of music such as jazz, bebop and a young genre rising under the name of Hip-hop. Soon teaching himself other instruments such as guitar, piano, electric bass, alto saxophone, as well as of course singing & composing, a musical 'melting-pot' began to 'cook'!
About the music McLean says: "It's an embodiment of all of my musical past, from the violin, which I played from a very early age, through to my singing and working in many different kinds of genres and bands. The 'Oo-Bla-Dee' can be an open window or can represent somehow
the unknown . . . . or the future."
"Fast-rising young pianist BENET McLEAN has a piano technique that seems to bring Art Tatum's music into the 21st century, drawing on classical music, postbop, hip-hop & beyond." The Guardian
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