As soon as I finished my post last night about the Duo show, I some how stumbled across Marco Benevento’s new solo album. The group on the album features Reed Mathis (Jacob Fred Jazzy Odyssey) on bass and both Matt Chamberlain (Tori Amos) and Andrew Barr (The Slip) on drums. I’ve only given the album one or two listens and haven’t put it up to the real test (the drive and listen) but so far it sounds incredible. Marco really has a talent of using his keys as his voice, his interludes are stunningly vocal. The album strives and succeeds to be a fun albeit loungey jazz piece, with some of that distorted, signature Duo sound thrown in.

Marco really tears it up on the piano, organs, clavs and even his speak and spell. It’s available right now in on iTunes in DRM free, plus format and goes on sale in stores February 12th. I highly recommend it.