Ben Street (musician)
Ben Street (* around 1970 in Maine ) is an American jazz musician ( double bass ).
Live and act
Street is the son of saxophonist and saxophone mouthpiece maker Bill Street; he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with Miroslav Vitouš and Dave Holland . In 1991 he came to New York. Here he recorded with avant-garde jazz musicians like Tim Berne and Kenny Wollesen . He also worked with Lee Konitz and as a sideman with the pianist Danilo Pérez , Jakob Bro , Ben Monder , Sam Rivers , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Joey Calderazzo , Gene Bertoncini , Bobby Selvaggio , Eugene Maslov , Dominique Eade , Cyndi Lauper , Manuel Valera , Orange Then Blue , the Frank Carlberg Quintet , the Once Blue group and others.
In 2005 he performed with the Maine Street Jazz Quartet (with Bill Street , Daniel Strange and Jonathan May ) as part of a cultural exchange program at the University of Southern Maine in Greece, where he gave jazz courses. In the summer of 2009 he was on a European tour with the Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet. Since 2010 he has toured the USA as part of the John Scofield Trio (together with Bill Stewart ). He has been a member of Billy Hart's quartet for several years , with whom he recorded several albums for ECM. With Hart he also accompanied Aaron Parks on his CD Find the Way . He also formed a trio with Mark Turner and Diego Piñera ( My Picture ) and currently (2019) with Anthony Pinciotti . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 105 recording sessions between 1992 and 2017. Currently (2019) he belongs to Rachel Z. Hakim's quartet with Jeremy Pelt and Clarence Penn . At the Down Beat Critics Poll 2020 he was the winner in the category "best double bass player (rising star)" "".
Web links
- Literature by and about Ben Street in the catalog of the German National Library
- Web presence
- Ben Street at Allmusic (English)
- Ben Street at Discogs (English)
- Ben Street. Smalls, January 28, 2019, accessed January 28, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cuban Jazz pianist Manuel Valera with Ben Street & Antonio Sanchez at Sweet Rhythm NYC May 2004 ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Tour - John Scofield. Retrieved January 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 26, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Street, Ben |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz bassist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maine |