Kenny Wollesen

Kenny Wollesen
Kenny Wollesen live at Satchmo club in Maribor, 2011. Photo by Jan Prunk
Background information
Born	April 9, 1966
Genres	Jazz
Instruments	Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone, Bells

Kenny Wollesen (born 1966) is an American drummer and percussionist.^[1]

Wollesen lives in New York City. He has recorded and toured with many musicians including 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.^[2] He also performs on the soundtrack to the popular children's show The Backyardigans.^[3]

Discography

With New Klezmer Trio

• Masks and Faces (Nine Winds, 1991 / Tzadik, 1996)
• Melt Zonk Rewire (Tzadik, 1995)
• Short for Something (Tzadik, 2000)

With Steve Beresford

• Signals for Tea (Avant, 1995)

With David Byrne

• Grown Backwards (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2004)

With Crash Test Dummies

• I Don't Care That You Don't Mind (Cha-Ching, 2001)
• Jingle All the Way (Cha-Ching, 2002)

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)
• Guitar in the Space Age! (OKeh, 2014)

With Ben Goldberg

• The Relative Value of Things (33¼, 1992)

With the Himalayas

• Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (ANTI-, 2013)^[4]

With Rickie Lee Jones

• The Evening of My Best Day (2003)

With Sean Lennon

• Into the Sun (Grand Royal, 1998)

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)

With John Patton

• Minor Swing (DIW, 1995)

With Madeleine Peyroux

• Dreamland (1996)

With Ellen Reid

• Cinderellen (Mr. Friendly, 2001)

With John Scofield

• Bump (Verve, 2000)

With Tom Waits

• The Black Rider (Island, 1993)

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)
• Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003)
• Electric Masada: At the Mountains of Madness (Tzadik, 2005)
• 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

References

1. Layne, Joslyn. "Biography: Kenny Wollesen". Allmusic. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
2. "Kenny Wollesen and Himalayas". Retrieved 2012-06-14.
3. IMDB Profile: Kemnny Wollesen, accessed December 11, 2013
4. http://www.allmusic.com/album/son-of-rogues-gallery-pirate-ballads-sea-songs-chanteys-mw0002476575