Ben Monder

Four years ago, Reid Anderson and Dave King rebooted The Bad Plus with a new pianist, Orrin Evans. Now they're reinventing the band as a pianoless quartet, with Chris Speed on sax and Ben Monder on guitar.

At one point in the process of compiling WBGO’s 2020 Fall Preview, I realized that a handful of this season’s most anticipated albums amount to More of…

Stretch your horizons this week in Take Five.The Art Ensemble of Chicago, “Oasis at Dusk”For a broad coalition of adventurous listeners, few albums this…

Ben Monder's sound world has a Jekyll-and-Hyde quality. Since the early '90s, the guitarist's fluid, lambent, often borderline-ambient contributions have…