Ben Wendel, Live at the Village Vanguard
Music · Print
Album artwork featuring a hand-printed letterpress design, inspired by the famous red canopy and front doors of perhaps the most iconic jazz club in the world.
Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard features international saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel alongisde: Gerald Clayton (piano), Linda May Han Oh (bass) and Obed Calvaire (drums).
For Edition Records (2024)
Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard is Wendel’s first live album and follows his Grammy nominated release All One. The Village Vanguard is one of the most famous of jazz venues, known for groundbreaking performances by everyone from Bill Evans to Miles Davis, Coltrane to Roland Kirk.
The album artwork was created entirely from a series of hand-printed letterpress prints by Oli Bentley on the People Powered Press.