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Ben Markley

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Ben Markley is a pianist, composer, arranger, author, educator, and leader of the Ben Markley Big Band, a daring ensemble known for their creative takes on beloved modern and contemporary jazz classics. Fresh off the heels of Clockwise: The Music of Cedar Walton, Markley tackles his most ambitious project yet: Ari’s Funhouse, a big band album featuring the music of drummer Ari Hoenig, with Hoenig himself in the drum chair. The album received great critical acclaim and was selected as one of the best 4 star rated albums of 2022 by DownBeat magazine.
Markley is active as a composer and arranger with many big band and vocal jazz charts published through UNC Jazz Press as well as his own website. Recent arranging commissions include the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, and Wyoming Jazz Educators All-State Jazz Band.
Tell the Truth

By Ben Markley
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Tell the Truth; Tuesday Morning Feeling; Don't Bring It Up; Snowy Range Blues; Spencer's Mood; It's Spoken
Spokane; The Picture Outside My Window; Rimshot.
Don't Bring It Up

Album: Tell the Truth
By Ben Markley
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:06
Live at Nocturne

By Ben Markley
Label: Nocturne
Released: 2024
Track listing: Her Strength and Beauty; The Melody and Me; Slow Play; Our Walk; Night on the Mountain;
Sun on the Snow; Jife.
Closing Time

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ben's Tune; Closing Time; Don't Stress; Fantasy for Cede; Old Folks; Hope; Cape Verdean Blues.
Leslie Pintchik, Rich Halley, and Ryan Keberle

by Jerome Wilson
This show features a wide variety of musicians, including Leslie Pintchik, Owen Broder, Rich Halley, Geof Bradfield, Ryan Keberle and Alice Coltrane.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Conrad Herwig “Mellow Minor" from The Latin Side ...
Ben Markley: Live at Nocturne

by Pierre Giroux
Ben Markley's Live At Nocturne encapsulates a rare alchemy that emerges from nightly performances in an intimate collaborative setting. Over two uninterrupted months, Markley and his cohorts guitarist Steve Kovalcheck, alto saxophonist Will Swindler, bassists Domi Edson (tracks 1-5), Matt Smiley (tracks 6-7) and drummer Andy Wheeler, transformed Denver's Nocturne into a crucible for creativity that ...
Ben's Tune

Album: Closing Time
By Live Edge Trio
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 06:43
Ben Markley: Ari's Funhouse

by Angelo Leonardi
Accade spesso nel jazz che dagli incontri estemporanei nascano le cose migliori. Il bandleader e arrangiatore Ben Markley e il batterista Ari Hoenig si sono conosciuti nel 2019 in un jazz festival del Texas. Da quell'incontro è nato questo progetto discografico, che ha visto Markley orchestrare le composizioni di Hoenig per la big band che guida ...
Leavenworth Jazz Festival 2023: A First Breath of Mountain Air

by Paul Rauch
Leavenworth Jazz Festival Leavenworth, WA May 5-7, 2023 The one-hundred-and-twenty-mile journey from the city of Seattle, to the village of Leavenworth, WA is one of perilous beauty and wonderment. Once arriving in the town of Monroe at the foot of the Cascade Mountains, Highway 2 east rises majestically over the Cascade summit ...