Kenny Wollesen

Kenny Wollesen (born 1966) is an American drummer and percussionist.

Wollesen has recorded and toured with Tom Waits, Sean Lennon, Ron Sexsmith, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, John Lurie, Myra Melford, Steven Bernstein, and John Zorn. He is a founding member of the New Klezmer Trio and a member of the Sex Mob and Himalayas groups.

He grew up in Capitola, California, studying at Aptos High School, and spending many teenage years playing with Donny McCaslin. He spent quality classroom time with flugelhornist and arranger Ray Brown at Cabrillo College. He also arranges and studied vibraphone at Cabrillo.

Wollesen utilizes the Burton grip when playing vibraphone.

Discography

As leader or co-leader

* ''Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness'' (New Artists, 2011)
* ''The Gnostic Preludes: Music of Splendor'' (Tzadik, 2012)
* ''John Zorn: The Mysteries'' (Tzadik, 2013)
* ''Rasa Rasa'' (Tzadik, 2014)

With the Himalayas
* '' Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys'' ( ANTI-, 2013)

With Myra Melford
* 2000 ''Dance Beyond the Color'', Myra Melford's Crush
* 2004 ''Where the Two Worlds Touch'', Myra Melford's the Tent

With New Klezmer Trio
* '' Masks and Faces'' ( Nine Winds, 1991 / Tzadik, 1996)
* '' Melt Zonk Rewire'' (Tzadik, 1995)
* '' Short for Something'' (Tzadik, 2000)

With Sexmob
* 1998 ''Din of Inequity''
* 2000 ''Solid Sender''
* 2000 ''Theatre & Dance''
* 2001 ''Sex Mob Does Bond''
* 2003 ''Dime Grind Palace''
* 2006 ''Sexotica''
* 2013 ''Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti: Sexmob Plays Fellini''
* 2009 ''Sex Mob Meets Medeski: Live in Willisau''

With others
* 1997 ''Interpretations of Lessness'', Andy Laster's Lessness
* 1997 ''The Loan'', Brad Shepik
* 1998 ''At Home'', Slow Poke
* 1998 ''Fabulous'', Drop Curlew
* 2000 ''Hidden Gardens'', Lan Xang
* 2000 ''Redemption'', Slow Poke
* 2006 ''Ways Not to Lose'', The Wood Brothers

As sideman

With Steve Beresford
* ''Signals for Tea'' (Avant, 1995)

With David Byrne
* '' Grown Backwards'' (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2004)

With Nels Cline
* '' Lovers'' (Blue Note, 2016)

With Crash Test Dummies
* '' I Don't Care That You Don't Mind'' (Cha-Ching, 2001)
* '' Jingle All the Way'' (Cha-Ching, 2002)

With Sylvie Courvoisier
* '' Double Windsor'' (Tzadik, 2014)
* '' D’Agala'' (Intakt, 2018)

With Trevor Dunn's trio-convulsant
*'' Debutantes & Centipedes'' (Buzz, 1998)
With Bill Frisell
* '' Blues Dream'' (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2001)
* '' Unspeakable'' (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2004)
* ''East/West'' (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2005)
* ''Further East/Further West'' (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2005)
* '' History, Mystery'' (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2008)
* '' All We Are Saying'' (Savoy Jazz, 2011)
* ''The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved'' (2012)
* '' Guitar in the Space Age!'' (OKeh, 2014)

With Ben Goldberg
* '' The Relative Value of Things'' (33¼, 1992)
* ''Orphic Machine'' (2015)

With Jesse Harris
* 2003 ''The Secret Sun''
* 2004 ''While the Music Lasts''
* 2006 ''Mineral''
* 2010 ''Cosmo''

With Rickie Lee Jones
* 2003 '' The Evening of My Best Day'' (2003)
* 2009 ''Balm in Gilead''

With Julian Lage
* '' ARCLIGHT'' (Mack Avenue, 2016)
* '' Modern Lore'' (Mack Avenue, 2018)

With Sean Lennon
* '' Into the Sun'' (Grand Royal, 1998)

With Rudy Linka
* 2002 ''Simple Pleasures''
* 2007 ''Beyond the New York City Limits''

With Kate McGarry
* 2001 ''Show Me''
* 2005 ''Mercy Streets''

With Ruper Ordorika
* ''Dabilen Harria'' (Nuevos Medios, 1999)
* ''Hurrengo goizean'' (Metak, 2002)
* ''Kantuok jartzen ditut'' (Metak, 2004)
* ''Memoriaren Mapan'' (Elkar, 2006)
* ''Haizea Garizumakoa'' (Elkar, 2009)
* ''Hodeien azpian'' (Elkar, 2011)
* ''Lurrean etzanda'' (Elkar, 2014)
* ''Guria ostatuan'' (Elkar, 2016)
* ''Amour et toujours'' (Elkar, 2021)

With Ellen Reid
* 2001 '' Cinderellen'' (Mr. Friendly)

With Carrie Rodriguez/Chip Taylor
* 2005 ''Red Dog Tracks''
* 2006 ''Seven Angels on a Bicycle''
* 2007 ''Live from the Ruhr Triennale''
* 2010 ''The New Bye & Bye''

With Jenny Scheinman
* 2002 ''The Rabbi's Lover''
* 2004 ''Shalagaster''
* 2008 ''Crossing the Field''
* 2008 ''Jenny Scheinman''

With Tony Scherr
* 2002 ''Come Around''
* 2007 ''Twist in the Wind''

With John Scofield
* 2000 ''Bump''

With Leni Stern
* 2000 ''Kindness of Strangers''
* 2004 ''When Evening Falls''

With Rufus Wainwright
* 2003 ''Want One''
* 2007 ''Release the Stars''

With Tom Waits
* 1993 ''The Black Rider'' (Island)

With John Zorn
* ''Bar Kokhba'' (Tzadik, 1994–96)
* '' Filmworks VIII: 1997'' (Tzadik, 1998)
* '' Filmworks XIII: Invitation to a Suicide'' (Tzadik, 2002)
* '' Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking'' (Tzadik, 2003)
* '' 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4'' (Tzadik, 2004) with Electric Masada
* '' Voices in the Wilderness'' (Tzadik, 2003)
* '' Electric Masada: At the Mountains of Madness'' (Tzadik, 2005) with Electric Masada
* '' Filmworks XVII: Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls'' (Tzadik, 2006)
* '' Filmworks XVIII: The Treatment'' (Tzadik, 2006)
* '' The Dreamers'' (Tzadik, 2008)
* '' Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum'' (Tzadik, 2008)
* '' O'o'' (Tzadik, 2009) with The Dreamers
* '' Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner'' (Tzadik, 2010)
* '' Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14'' (Tzadik, 2010) with The Dreamers
* '' Baal: Book of Angels Volume 15'' (Tzadik, 2010) with Ben Goldberg Quartet
* ''In Search of the Miraculous'' (Tzadik, 2010)
* '' Dictée/Liber Novus'' (Tzadik, 2010)
* '' Interzone'' (Tzadik, 2010)
* '' The Goddess – Music for the Ancient of Days'' (Tzadik, 2010)
* '' The Satyr's Play / Cerberus'' (Tzadik, 2011)
* '' Nova Express'' (Tzadik, 2011) with the Nova Quartet
* '' At the Gates of Paradise'' (Tzadik, 2011)
* '' A Dreamers Christmas'' (Tzadik, 2011) with The Dreamers
* '' Mount Analogue'' (Tzadik, 2012)
* ''The Gnostic Preludes'' (Tzadik, 2012) with the Gnostic Trio
* ''Rimbaud'' (Tzadik, 2012)
* '' A Vision in Blakelight'' (Tzadik, 2012)
* '' Music and Its Double'' (Tzadik, 2012)
* '' The Concealed'' (Tzadik, 2012)
* ''The Mysteries'' (Tzadik, 2013) with the Gnostic Trio
* '' Dreamachines'' (Tzadik, 2013) with the Nova Quartet
* '' In Lambeth'' (Tzadik, 2013) with the Gnostic Trio
* '' On Leaves of Grass'' (Tzadik, 2014) with the Nova Quartet
* '' The Testament of Solomon'' (Tzadik, 2014) with the Gnostic Trio
* '' Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula'' (Tzadik, 2015) with The Dreamers
* ''The Mockingbird'' (2016)
* ''The Painted Bird'' (2016)

With others
* 1990 ''And Then There's This'', Jessica Williams
* 1996 ''Dreamland'', Madeleine Peyroux
* 1996 ''The Sun Died'', Ellery Eskelin
* 1998 ''Dopamine'', Mitchell Froom
* 1999 ''Thoroughfare'', Rebecca Martin
* 1999 ''Work in Progress 89-98'', Wolfgang Muthspiel
* 2000 ''Shebang'', Steve Cardenas
* 2001 ''Buttermilk Channel'', Adam Levy
* 2002 ''Come Away with Me'', Norah Jones
* 2008 ''The Living and the Dead'', Jolie Holland
* 2009 '' Trombone Tribe'', Roswell Rudd
* 2011 ''Everything is Alive'', Hank Roberts
* 2011 ''Graylen Epicenter'', David Binney
* 2012 ''Howie 61'', Wayne Krantz
* 2013 ''Another Life'', James Maddock
* 2013 ''Ghost on Ghost'', Iron & Wine
* 2014 ''Natalie Merchant'', Natalie Merchant
* 2015 ''Didn't He Ramble'', Glen Hansard

References

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American jazz drummers
Jewish American musicians
Living people
Avant-garde jazz drummers
1966 births
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
The Lounge Lizards members
Sexmob members
Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant members
21st-century American Jews
American jazz vibraphonists