KNEEBODY - Iowa City Jazz Festival - 7/2/11

I go to the Iowa City Jazz Festival over the 4th of July weekend each year and this year was no exception.  I didn't take any videos but I did take a few photos and I recorded everything....so here is part of one song from the first band I saw, Kneebody, accompanied by a few photos I took.  These guys were amazing....drum & bass/jazz/rock...you name it they played it.  here is a short review of a few of their releases from their website: 
Cohesion is the truest constant in the music of Kneebody, a band that inhabits the borderland abutted by post-bop, indie-rock and hip-hop, without seeming to give much thought to the borders. The group released an ethereal album of Charles Ives songs last year, earning an unlikely Grammy nomination in the classical crossover field. “You Can Have Your Moment” (Winter & Winter), the follow- up, takes a screeching turn in the direction of groove. At the album’s core is a lean but darkly woozy rhythm section composed of Adam Benjamin on Fender Rhodes piano, Kaveh Rastegar on electric bass and Nate Wood on drums. The trumpeter Shane Endsley and the saxophonist Ben Wendel make up the front line, though not always with respect to melody. Everyone proves himself a resourceful improviser, but over the course of a dozen thoughtful originals — ranging from the sober hum of “The Entrepreneur” to the stuttering lunge of “No Thank You Mr. West” — their clout registers as a cogent whole.