Ben Meigners

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Ben Meigners (* around 1980) is an Israeli jazz musician ( double bass ) of modern jazz .

Ben Meigners moved from Israel to New York in 2002 to study, where he has been in the city's jazz scene ever since. a. played with other Israeli musicians, mostly as house musicians in the Fat Cat jazz club . His mentors were Dennis Irwin and Steve Blum . In Fat Cat he played in the bands of Harry Whitaker , Billy Kaye , Saul Rubin , Don Hahn , Shimrit Shoshan and his own band Smashingolek . He also played in the formations of Andy Bey , Freddie Redd , Roy Hargrove , Jimmy Cobb , Slide Hampton , Frank Wess , George Braith , Chris Byars , Gilad Atzmon , Sacha Perry , Yonatan Voltzuk, Jack Glottman, Pascuale Grasso and Kim Thompson. With the Fat Cat Big Band he was involved in their albums Meditations on the War for Whose Great God Is The Most High: You Are God (2008) and Angels Praying For Freedom (2008). Meigners is currently (2019) a member of the Corey Wilcox Quintet and the Asaf Yuria Exorcisms Sextet. In the field of jazz he was involved in four recording sessions between 2005 and 2008.

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  1. ↑ Ben Meigners. Smalls, July 1, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 5, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Meigners, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1980