Kenny Wollesen

Wollesen worked across jazz musician, percussionist, musician, vibraphonist and drummer. The registers place that work in jazz. This article rests on 65 catalogued compositions, 3 issued recordings, 1 digitised documents and 2 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Kenny Wollesen • Born — 9 April 1966 • Genre — Avant-garde jazz, classical, rock • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Drums, vibraphone, percussion • Label — Tzadik • Past Member Of — New Klezmer Trio, Sex Mob, The Dreamers, The Gnostic Trio

• 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 • 2009 Sex Mob Meets Medeski: Live in Willisau • 2013 Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti: Sexmob Plays Fellini • 2017 Cultural Capital • 2023 The Hard Way 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 • 2021 Bond Riviera, Rocket Sci

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) • Free Hopes (Intakt, 2020) 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 • 2024 All Species Parade 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 • 1997 Penumbra: The Moon Sessions, Dmitri Matheny • 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

Wollesen worked as jazz musician, percussionist, musician and vibraphonist, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them drummer. The fields Wollesen worked in include jazz. Wollesen played the drum kit. Wollesen worked in English.