Ben LaMar Gay

Ben LaMar Gay as part of the AACM Now Generation ( German Jazz Festival 2015)

Benjamin “Ben” LaMar Gay (* around 1984 in Chicago ) is an American jazz and fusion musician ( cornet , vocals , composition ).

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LaMar Gay grew up on the south side of Chicago and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from Northeastern Illinois University . He spent six years teaching music in Chicago public schools, visiting professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and moderating the Inferno Mobile Recording Studio of the Chicago Park District . As a member of the AACM , he also appeared in Chicago since the 2000s, initially as a singer and multi-instrumentalist . At the beginning of the second decade, he was in Brazil for three years. Back he has worked on jazz productions such as Mike Reeds Flesh & Bone and Greg Ward's 10 Tongues , but also in the R&B trio Bottle Tree . For his own productions he eclectically overlays his songs with later recorded parts, first on the album Orange (2007) of his project Juba Dance .

LaMar Gay performed in Europe in 2009 with the AACM Great Black Music Ensemble and in 2015 with the AACM Now Generation . He was a member of Nicole Mitchell's Earth Seed , Joshua Abrams ' Natural Information Society, and the Bitchin Bajas . He also performed in a duo with Thurman Barker . In 2017 he appeared on two International Anthems releases , Makaya McCravens Highly Rare and Jaimie Branchs Fly or Die . In 2018 he released his debut album Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun under his own name , which includes recordings from the last seven years and which the Süddeutsche Zeitung described as "crazy as well as wonderfully pieced together music". In 2019, East of the Ryan followed for the same label . He has also worked with Coultrain ( Jungle Mumbo Jumbo ), Theo Parrish , Celso Fonseca and others.

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↑ ^a ^b Chicago musical polymath Ben LaMar Gay breaks even his own shape-shifting mold on his solo debut. In: Chicago Reader. March 5, 2018, accessed June 10, 2020 .
↑ Jens-Christian Rabe: How would it sound if Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt and Gilberto Gil had met for tea? Like Ben LaMar Gay's new album. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. July 13, 2018, accessed June 10, 2020 .

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SURNAME	LaMar Gay, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	LaMar Gay, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz and fusion musician (cornet, vocals, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago

[CR-1] Chicago musical polymath Ben LaMar Gay breaks even his own shape-shifting mold on his solo debut. In: Chicago Reader. March 5, 2018, accessed June 10, 2020 .

[2] Jens-Christian Rabe: How would it sound if Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt and Gilberto Gil had met for tea? Like Ben LaMar Gay's new album. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. July 13, 2018, accessed June 10, 2020 .