Ben Street
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Ben Street | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | Maine, U.S. |
| Genres | Avant-garde, free jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Double bass |
| Labels | GM, Tzadik |
| Associated acts | Orange Then Blue, Sephardic Tinge |
Ben Street is an American jazz double bassist. Street has performed and recorded with many renowned artists, including John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Ben Monder, Michael Eckroth, Sam Rivers, Billy Hart, Danilo Perez, Aaron Parks, and Adam Cruz, among others.[1][2]
He studied the acoustic bass with former Weather Report bassist Miroslav Vitous.[2]
He is the son of saxophonist and saxophone mouthpiece maker Bill Street and is a native of Maine.
Discography[]
With Anthony Coleman
With Kurt Rosenwinkel
- The Enemies of Energy (Verve, 2000)
- The Next Step (Verve, 2001)
- Heartcore (Verve, 2003)
With Jakob Bro
- The Stars Are All New Songs (Loveland, 2008)
- Balladeering (Loveland, 2009)
With Andrew Cyrille, Søren Kjœrgaard
- Optics (Ilk, 2008)
- Open Opus (Ilk, 2010)
- Femklang (Ilk, 2012)
With Tom Harrell
- Infinity (HighNote, 2019)
With Billy Hart
- Billy Hart Quartet (HighNote, 2006)
- All Our Reasons (ECM, 2012)
- One Is the Other (ECM, 2014)
With Albert Heath, Ethan Iverson
- Tootie's Tempo (Sunnyside, 2013)
- Philadelphia Beat (Sunnyside, 2015)
With Ben Monder
- Dust (Arabesque, 1997)
With Orange Then Blue
- 1999 Hold the Elevator: Live in Europe & Other Haunts
With Danilo Pérez
- 2003 ...Till Then
- 2005 Live at the Jazz Showcase
- 2010 Providencia
With Sam Rivers
- 2005 Purple Violets
- 2005 Violet Violets
With Chiara Civello
- 2005 Last Quarter Moon
- 2007 The Space Between
With Lage Lund
- 2010 Unlikely Stories
- 2012 Live at Smalls
- 2013 Foolhardy
- 2015 Idlewild
With David Sanchez
- 2004 Coral
- 2008 Cultural Survival
With Others
- 1997 Dust, Ben Monder
- 1998 La Bikina, Edward Simon
- 2000 Love Decides, Jane Olivor
- 2002 Rainy Day Assembly, Tess Wiley
- 2003 Friendship, Perico Sambeat
- 2005 A Moment's Glance,
- 2005 Journey to Donnafugata, Salvatore Bonafede
- 2005 Place and Time, Anat Cohen
- 2006 Melancolia, Manuel Valera
- 2006 When You're There,
- 2007 Keep Your Sunny Side Up, Bill Carrothers
- 2007 The Timeless Now, Dayna Stephens
- 2007 Unspoken Dialogue,
- 2009 Angelica, Francesco Cafiso
- 2009 Open Season, Ralph Alessi
- 2010 All My Friends Are Here, Arif Mardin
- 2012 Three Things of Beauty, Bruce Barth
- 2012 Continuum, David Virelles (Pi)
- 2015 Kikuchi/Street/Morgan/Osgood, Masabumi Kikuchi, Thomas Morgan, Kresten Osgood (Ilk)
- 2015 Space Squid, Bill Stewart
- 2016 , Yelena Eckemoff (L&H)[3]
- 2017 Find the Way, with Aaron Parks and Billy Hart (ECM)[4]
- 2019 Common Practice, Ethan Iverson (ECM)
References[]
- ^ Layne, Joslyn. "Ben Street Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Ben Street at All About Jazz". Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
- ^ "Ben Street | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
- ^ https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/1486378042/find-the-way-aaron-parks-ben-street-billy-hart
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