Ben Goldberg

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Ben Goldberg (* 8. August 1959 ) is an American clarinetist of jazz and new improvised music .

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Goldberg grew up in Denver , Colorado . He was a student of the clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo and studied with Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano . After he belonged to The Klezmorim from 1986 to 1988 , he founded his own formation New Klezmer Trio , whose radical, experimental music style differs considerably from the traditional Klezmer tradition ( Marks and Faces , 1991). After training at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Master of Arts in composition from Mills College , he worked in the mid-1990s in the formation What We Live of Larry Ochs , Lisle Ellis , Glenn Spearman and Paul Plimley .

In addition to working with his New Klezmer Trio , Goldberg played in a duo with drummer Kenny Wollesen ( The Relative Value of Things on 33 ¼ Records); with the formation Junk Genius (with John Schott , Trevor Dunn and Wollesen), with whom he recorded the album Junk Genius ( Knitting Factory Works) in 1994 , an examination of the bebo repertoire. The album Here by Now (Music and Arts) followed in 1996 ; What Comes Before ( Tzadik ), with John Schott and Michael Sarin ; and Twelve Minor (Avant), compositions for sextet with co-player Miya Masaoka as guest soloist, and the album Ghost of Electricity (1999 on Songlines ). In 1996 he also worked with Dunn and Wolleson on Marty Ehrlich's album Light at the Crossroads .

In addition to working with his quintet, Ben Goldberg has appeared in the Tin Hat formation since 2005 (initially with Carla Kihlstedt , Mark Orton , Zeena Parkins and Ara Anderson ) ; he also works in a trio called plays monk , with Scott Amendola and Devin Hoff ; with the Graham Connah Group and with John Schott's Typical Orchestra .

In 1993 Goldberg received a composition commission from the National Endowment for the Arts to participate in a comprehensive work that was to introduce the leading American composers; he worked together Andrew Hill and Bobby Bradford ; in addition, the music of Steve Lacy , Herbie Nichols and Thelonious Monk was presented. In 1996 the NEA presented a series of concerts with Goldberg's works. He worked with John Zorn , Cecil Taylor , Roswell Rudd and Nels Cline . Goldberg also appeared on Cline's album New Monastary, A View into the Music of Andrew Hill , which was released on Cryptogramophone Records in 2006 . He also worked with Kirk Knuffke ( Witness ) and in a duo with Myra Melford ( Dialogue , 2016). Together with Melford he also appeared on the album Otis Was A Polar Bear (2016) by Allison Miller 's Boom Tic Boom . In the full sextet line-up of the Miller Combo, he was on a European tour in May 2018 to make the album known in Europe. His contributions on the voluminous Contra-Alto clarinet received particular attention.

In 2013 he led the Down Beat critic poll in the field of clarinet as a "Rising Star".

Goldberg lives in Berkeley , California .

Discographic notes

  • Masks and Faces (1991)
  • The Relative Value of Things (1992)
  • Eight Phrases for Jefferson Rubin (Victo, 1996)
  • Ghost of Electricity (Songlines, 1999)
  • Almost Never (Nuscope, 1999) with John Schott
  • New Monastery, A View into the Music of Andrew Hill (Cryptogramophone, 2006)
  • the door, the hat, the chair, the fact (Cryptogramophone, 2006)
  • The Out Louds (Relative Pitch Records, 2016), with Tomas Fujiwara , Mary Halvorson
  • Plague Diary (2020) solo

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supporting documents

  1. ^ AllMusic Review by Matt Collar , accessed May 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Goldberg, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clarinetist of jazz and improvisation music
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1959