Home » Jazz Musicians » Ben Ferrell Discography
Sextet
Ben Ferrell
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 00:51:10
Views: 27
Tracks
Tholus; Caladan; Picky Bits; Light Blue; Song For Stilgar; Dragon Roost Island; Never Forget; And So We've Come Thus Far; Song For Stilgar (Alternate Take)
Personnel
Ben Ferrell
bassAtley King
vibraphone
Rintaro Mikami
drums
Nick Rousseau
guitarReginald Chapman
tromboneAlbum Description
New York, NY (For Immediate Release) – Adhyâropa Records is thrilled to announce Sextet, the new album from rising jazz bass star Ben Ferrell featuring contributions from Atley King on vibraphone, Nick Rousseau on electric guitar, Reginald Chapman on bass trombone, Will Evans on trumpet, and Rintaro Mikami on drums.
In short order Ben Ferrell has established himself as a leading light of the next generation of young New York jazz artists. Since graduating from Old Dominion University and the Tribeca Jazz Institute, Ferrell has developed an instantly identifiable playing and composition style forged from his unique interests, experience, and perspective. Having studied or performed with jazz luminaries such as Pasquale Grasso, Kenny Washington, Cecil McBee, John Toomey, Grant Stewart, and Bruce Harris, Ferrell strives to honor the traditions of jazz while bringing a modern energy to his compositions and feel. Drawing from influences across the jazz spectrum and beyond, Sextet announces the arrival of a major new talent.
The album opens with the hard-charging ‘Tholus,’ announcing the ensemble’s intent from the beginning with emphasis. Ferrell’s power 5ths herald a collective improvisation that blooms into a melody played in unison over Mikami’s customarily virtuosic drums, a post-bop chamber ensemble with roots in the past but with its gaze firmly in the future. “Sextet honors the tradition of improvised music before me while finding our own contemporary, modernized, unique version of it,” Ferrell says. “It has swing, it has the blues, and those are important influences, but as a product of the internet age I had access to a huge breadth of music and it all informs this music as well – electronic music, fusion, psychedelics, and so much more. Keen listeners will hear it all, blended together to form my own unique compositional and improvisational voice.”
Once the roundhouse punch of the intro subsides, the tune gives way to a series of solos, one feeding into another seamlessly in the manner of an ensemble that has been playing together for years – which in one form or another, they have. “This is my first record as a leader, and I know a lot of musicians who have hired their old professors to play on their record, and that’s great,” Ferrell says. ”These are the people who have inspired them and pushed them and it’s a tribute to them as well as a launching point. But for me, I wanted an ensemble that had been there with me as I’d grown into myself as a musician, growing in their own ways, together and separately – musicians and friends that I could play comfortably and confidently with and who speak the same language I’m searching for.”
Album uploaded by Adhyâropa Records
Tags
Comments
More Albums
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
