Ben Perowsky

Ben Perowsky (born May 12, 1966 in New York City ) is an American jazz musician ( drums , percussion , composition , arrangement ).

Live and act

Perowsky comes from a musical family; his father Frank Perowsky is a bebop saxophonist, his mother a dancer. At the age of five he received his first drum kit. He attended the High School of Music and Art in Harlem , where he was a drummer in a jazz ensemble at school and once with Dizzy Gillespie and Jimmy Heath occurred. He also played with his father. He then studied at the Berklee School of Music with Alan Dawson and at the Manhattan School of Music . During this time he toured with the bands of James Moody (1985) and Rickie Lee Jones . From 1988 to 1989 he worked with Roy Ayers , David Liebman and Richie Beirach . Since 1990 he has belonged to the bands of Mike Stern and Bob Berg , but also worked with Jim Beard , Ronnie Cuber and Eliane Elias and with the musicians of the downtown scene. He played in an early line-up of John Zorn's Masada and in Spanish Fly with Marcus Rojas , Steven Bernstein and David Tronzo . He also went on tour with Wayne Horvitz and into the studio with John Cale before John Lurie brought him to his Lounge Lizards ( Queen of All Ears ). From their own band with Adam Rogers and Fima Ephron , the band Lost Tribe developed with David Binney and David Gilmore , which had great success in New York clubs and recorded three albums from 1993.

In 1996 he founded the Ben Perowsky Trio with Chris Speed and Scott Colley , with whom he performed weekly at the Knitting Factory . He released the trio's album of the same name in 1999 on his father's JazzKey label; one of the pieces Hal Willner later used in the film Talladega Nights . In 2002 he went to the studio with his father and Sam Yahel to record the album Bop on Pop . His camp songs from 2003, which reflect a Jewish summer camp , were released by Tzadik and counted among the CDs of 2003 in JazzTimes . In 2005 he toured Europe with his quartet, which included Chris Speed, Ted Reichman and Drew Gress . He also plays in Red Cred with Speed and John Medeski . He was also a member of Elysian Fields , played with Steven Bernstein, Dave Douglas and Don Byron Illbient and has been part of Uri Caine's projects since 2002 . He can also be heard on recordings by Misha Mengelberg , Michael Blake , Trey Anastasio , Walter Becker , Lizz Wright , Joan as Police Woman , Hercules and Love Affair , Antony and the Johnsons and Salif Keïta . He also played with Pat Martino , John Scofield , John Cale , Marty Ehrlich and Vernon Reid and wrote music for dance theater.