Ben Stapp

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Benjamin "Ben" Stapp (born January 14, 1982 in California ) is an American jazz musician ( tuba , composition ).

Live and act

Stapp studied at UCLA with Tommy Johnson before continuing his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester , where he studied tuba with Roger Bobo and composition with Anthony Gilbert . In the 2000s he lived in Europe for a while and played a. a. in the formations Dakah Hip-Hop Orchestra, in the Alipio C. Neto Quartet ( The Perfume Comes Before the Flower (2007), a.o. with Herb Robertson ) and The Archaic Future Players (with Dave Noyes , Jeremy Udden , Kenny Warren ) and with Franz Hautzinger , Red Baraat, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and Anti-Social Music . In 2008 he released his debut album Ecstasis (Uqbar Music, with Tony Malaby and Satoshi Takeishi ). At the beginning of the following decade he worked a. a. with Sanda Weigl , Stephen Haynes , Joel Harrison , Robert Sabin and Jeff Newell.

Stepp is currently (2016) working with his band The Zozimos , which includes Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), Stephen Haynes (cornet / flugelhorn), Oscar Noriega (clarinet) and Rebekah Heller (bassoon). He performed with The Zozimos in New York venues such as Stone, Cornelia Street Cafe , the Tea Lounge and Roulette and won first prize in the Bob Stewart Tuba Competition as part of the 38th Duke Ellington Jazz Festival , which made him work on the commissioned composition Eight Houses (2011) made it possible. In 2011 the album Eight Houses for Brass & Electronics was released , u. a. with Satoshi Takeishi, Shoko Nagai and Nate Wooley . This was followed by Stapp's opera project Myrhha's Red Book , based on Carl Gustav Jung's “Red Book”, which premiered in 2013. In the field of jazz he was involved in four recording sessions between 2007 and 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait at Avant Music News
  2. ↑ a b Portrait at Roulette
  3. ↑ Eight Houses for Brass & Electronics at Bandcamp
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 22, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Stapp, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stapp, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH California