{"id":56,"date":"2017-07-05T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T16:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/music\/faculty\/ken_wessel\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:30:17","slug":"ken-wessel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/faculty\/ken-wessel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Wessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p class=\"subTitle\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2017\/07\/wessel.png\" width=\"132\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"inlineheader\">Adjunct Instructor of Music<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Applied Guitar<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kenny Wessel, a versatile, sensitive and soulful guitarist and composer, has performed in 27 countries. He toured with revolutionary jazz artist Ornette Coleman for over 12 years as a member of Prime Time, Ornette&#8217;s groundbreaking ensemble. Kenny can be heard on Coleman\u2019s CD, Tone Dialing. Performing Ornette\u2019s \u201cSkies of America,\u201d Wessel has appeared with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic and London\u2019s Philharmonia Orchestra. A vital and personal voice on the jazz guitar, he has also worked with Donald Fagen (featured guitar soloist on Fagen\u2019s <em>Morph the Cat<\/em>), David Liebman, John Abercrombie, Karl Berger, Debbie Harry, Gloria Lynne, Adam Rudolph and others from the jazz, pop and world music spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Ken has a strong interest in world music, particularly with North Indian music, and he has performed with Debashish Bhattacharya, Karaikudi Mani, V.M. Bhatt, Samir Chatterjee, Steve Gorn and others. Wessel co-leads a trio with jazz tabla master Badal Roy, Their CD, <em>Daybreak<\/em> was included in JAZZIZ magazine\u2019s Top 10 Critic\u2019s Picks. Ken and Badal toured India and the U.S. with their composition, \u201cTestimony,\u201d which was commissioned by the Battery Dance Company. Wessel\u2019s most recent CD, <em>Weights &amp; Measures <\/em>received 4 stars in <em>Downbeat<\/em> magazine and has made many critics\u2019 best of 2012 lists<em>.<\/em> As a U.S. Jazz Ambassador, Ken has toured South Asia and South America, visiting India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bengladesh and Venezuela in 2002-03.<\/p>\n<p>A dedicated jazz educator, Wessel currently teaches at Western Connecticut State University, CCNY, Long Island University, in addition to leading ensembles at the New York Jazz Workshop.\u00a0He also gives clinics and workshops around the world and has taught at universities and festivals, including:\u00a0 Oslo Music Academy, ICSMS Festival (Istanbul, Turkey), Mahaidol University (Bangkok), Yale University, World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland), Manhattan School of Music, and many others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenwessel.com\">www.kenwessel.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:wesselk@wcsu.edu\">wesselk@wcsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"title\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjunct Instructor of Music Applied Guitar Kenny Wessel, a versatile, sensitive and soulful guitarist and composer, has performed in 27 countries. He toured with revolutionary jazz artist Ornette Coleman for over 12 years as a member of Prime Time, Ornette&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"left-navigation.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}