Ben van Gelder

Ben van Gelder, 2018

Ben van Gelder (born November 9, 1988 in Groningen ) is a Dutch jazz musician ( alto saxophone ) who lives in New York City and is one of the “new voices that have been followed with a lot of attention”.

Live and act

Van Gelder, who comes from a music-loving family, began playing alto saxophone from the age of eleven, with jazz musicians Benjamin Herman and Simon Rigter teaching him. In 2003 he began his music studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Ferdinand Povel and Dick Oatts . During this time he was already performing at such renowned venues as the Bimhuis and the North Sea Jazz Festival . With his older brother, the pianist Gideon van Gelder, he formed a duo with which he won the audience award at the Prinses Christina Jazzconcours in 2004 . After receiving the Stan Getz / Clifford Brown Fellowship in 2005 , he began studying at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music with Lee Konitz , Jimmy Halperin and George Coleman in 2006 . He founded a quintet with the pianist Aaron Parks . Van Gelders debut album Frame of Reference , which he recorded with this quintet and guest Ambrose Akinmusire , received excellent reviews; a second album by his quintet followed in 2013. He also played in the More Socially Relevant Jazz Music Ensemble of the guitarist Reinier Baas and was involved in his album Mostly Improvised Instrumental Indie Music , which won the Edison Jazz Nationaal in 2013, and on Finn Silver's Crossing the Rubicon and Marike van Dijk's Stenography Project .

Discographic notes

Frame of Reference (BVG Music, 2011, with Aaron Parks , Peter Schlamb, Rick Rosato , Craig Weinrib and Ambrose Akinmusire)
Reprise ( Pirouet Records , 2013, with Sam Harris , Peter Schlamb, Rick Rosato, Craig Weinrib, and Mark Turner and Ben Street )

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Short biography (Jazz Fun)
↑ "Vibrafonist Peter Schlamb and pianist Sam Harris, (...) provide a floating harmony-glass bead game that never becomes esoteric due to the courageous interventions of bassist Rick Rosato and drummer Craig Weinrib." ( Jazzthing 102 (2013))

personal data
SURNAME	Money, ben van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH	Groningen

[1] Short biography (Jazz Fun)

[2] "Vibrafonist Peter Schlamb and pianist Sam Harris, (...) provide a floating harmony-glass bead game that never becomes esoteric due to the courageous interventions of bassist Rick Rosato and drummer Craig Weinrib." ( Jazzthing 102 (2013))