Kenny Wollesen

Kenny Wollesen
Kenny Wollesen live at Satchmo club in Maribor, 2011. Photo by Jan Prunk
Background information
Genres	Jazz
Instruments	Drums, Percussion

Kenny Wollesen is an American drummer and percussionist.

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, Steven Bernstein and John Zorn. He is a founding member of the New Klezmer Trio and a member of the Sex Mob group. He also performs on popular children's show The Backyardigans.^[1]

Discography

With David Byrne

• Grown Backwards (2004)

With Bill Frisell

• Blues Dream (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2001)
• Unspeakable (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2004)
• East/West (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2005)
• History, Mystery (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2008)

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 (1999)
• Hurrengo goizean (2002)
• Kantuok jartzen ditut (2004)
• Memoriaren Mapan (2006)
• Haizea Garizumakoa (2009)

With John Patton

• Minor Swing (DIW, 1995)

With Madeleine Peyroux

• Dreamland (1996)

With John Scofield

• Bump (Verve, 2000)

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)
• Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner (Tzadik, 2010)
• 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)
• Nova Express (Tzadik, 2011)
• At the Gates of Paradise (Tzadik, 2011)

References

Persondata
Name	Wollesen, Kenny
Alternative names
Short description	Aemrican musician
Date of birth	1966
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