Kenny Wollesen
Kenny Wollesen is an American drummer and percussionist.
Wollesen has recorded and toured with 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.
He grew up in Capitola, California, studying at Aptos High School, and spending many teenage years playing with Donny McCaslin. He spent quality classroom time with flugelhornist and arranger Ray Brown at Cabrillo College. He also arranges and studied vibraphone at Cabrillo.Discography
As leader or co-leader
- Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness
- The Gnostic Preludes: Music of Splendor
- John Zorn: The Mysteries
- Rasa Rasa
With the Himalayas
With Myra Melford
- 2000 Dance Beyond the Color, Myra Melford's Crush
- 2004 Where the Two Worlds Touch, Myra Melford's the Tent
With New Klezmer Trio
- Masks and Faces
- Melt Zonk Rewire
- Short for Something
With Sexmob
- 1998 Din of Inequity
- 2000 Solid Sender
- 2000 Theatre & Dance
- 2001 Sex Mob Does Bond
- 2003 Dime Grind Palace
- 2006 Sexotica
- 2013 Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti: Sexmob Plays Fellini
- 2009 Sex Mob Meets Medeski: Live in Willisau
With others'
Interpretations of Lessness, Andy Laster's Lessness 1997 The Loan, Brad Shepik 1998 At Home, Slow Poke 1998 Fabulous, Drop Curlew 2000 Hidden Gardens, Lan Xang 2000 Redemption, Slow Poke 2006 Ways Not to Lose'', The Wood BrothersAs sideman
With Steve Beresford
With David Byrne
With Nels Cline
With Crash Test Dummies
With Sylvie Courvoisier
With Trevor Dunn's trio-convulsant
With Bill Frisell
- Blues Dream
- Unspeakable
- East/West
- Further East/Further West
- History, Mystery
- All We Are Saying
- The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved
- Guitar in the Space Age!
With Ben Goldberg
With Jesse Harris
- 2003 The Secret Sun
- 2004 While the Music Lasts
- 2006 Mineral
- 2010 Cosmo
With Rickie Lee Jones
With Julian Lage
With Sean Lennon
With Rudy Linka
With Kate McGarry
- 2001 Show Me
- 2005 Mercy Streets
With Ruper Ordorika
- Dabilen Harria
- Hurrengo goizean
- Kantuok jartzen ditut
- Memoriaren Mapan
- Haizea Garizumakoa
- Hodeien azpian
- Lurrean etzanda
- Guria ostatuan
With Ellen Reid
With Carrie Rodriguez/Chip Taylor
- 2005 Red Dog Tracks
- 2006 Seven Angels on a Bicycle
- 2007 Live from the Ruhr Triennale
- 2010 The New Bye & Bye
With Jenny Scheinman
- 2002 The Rabbi's Lover
- 2004 Shalagaster
- 2008 Crossing the Field
- 2008 Jenny Scheinman
With Tony Scherr
- 2002 Come Around
- 2007 Twist in the Wind
With John Scofield
With Leni Stern
- 2000 Kindness of Strangers
- 2004 When Evening Falls
With Rufus Wainwright
- 2003 Want One
- 2007 Release the Stars
With Tom Waits
With John Zorn
- Bar Kokhba
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- 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4 with Electric Masada
- Voices in the Wilderness
- ' with Electric Masada
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- The Dreamers
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- O'o with The Dreamers
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- ' with The Dreamers
- ' with Ben Goldberg Quartet
- In Search of the Miraculous
- Dictée/Liber Novus
- Interzone
- The Goddess – Music for the Ancient of Days
- The Satyr's Play / Cerberus
- Nova Express with the Nova Quartet
- At the Gates of Paradise
- A Dreamers Christmas with The Dreamers
- Mount Analogue
- The Gnostic Preludes with the Gnostic Trio
- Rimbaud
- A Vision in Blakelight
- Music and Its Double
- The Concealed
- The Mysteries with the Gnostic Trio
- Dreamachines with the Nova Quartet
- In Lambeth with the Gnostic Trio
- On Leaves of Grass with the Nova Quartet
- The Testament of Solomon with the Gnostic Trio
- ' with The Dreamers
- The Mockingbird
- The Painted Bird
With others'
And Then There's This, Jessica Williams 1996 Dreamland, Madeleine Peyroux 1996 The Sun Died, Ellery Eskelin 1998 Dopamine, Mitchell Froom 1999 Thoroughfare, Rebecca Martin 1999 Work in Progress 89-98, Wolfgang Muthspiel 2000 Shebang, Steve Cardenas 2001 Buttermilk Channel, Adam Levy 2002 Come Away with Me, Norah Jones 2008 The Living and the Dead, Jolie Holland 2009 Trombone Tribe, Roswell Rudd 2011 Everything is Alive, Hank Roberts 2011 Graylen Epicenter, David Binney 2012 Howie 61, Wayne Krantz 2013 Another Life, James Maddock 2013 Ghost on Ghost, Iron & Wine 2014 Natalie Merchant, Natalie Merchant 2015 Didn't He Ramble'', Glen Hansard