Saxophonist Ben Wendel (Canada/USA) is best known for his work with the 2009 Grammy-nominated group Kneebody and his collaboration with Tigran Hamasyan, Linda Oh and Prince, among others. He released three solo albums and at this Festival he presents his project The Seasons, inspired by Tchaikovsky’s works of the same name. He made a video for each month of the year with a different jazz partner while two of them, guitarist Gilad Hekselman (first in the Rising Star category of Downbeat magazine in 2017) and bassist Matt Brewer are members of the performing Seasons Band.