Ben Street

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Ben Street
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Background information
Born (1965-07-18) July 18, 1965 (age 60)
Maine, U.S.
Genres Avant-garde, free jazz
OccupationMusician
Instrument Double bass
LabelsGM, Tzadik
Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Street, and Rodney Green Ben Street & Rodney Green.jpg
Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Street, and Rodney Green

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 Vitouš. [2]

He is the son of saxophonist and saxophone mouthpiece maker Bill Street and is a native of Maine.

Ben attended New England Conservatory of Music.

Discography

With Anthony Coleman

With Kurt Rosenwinkel

With Jakob Bro

With Andrew Cyrille

With Andrew Cyrille, Søren Kjœrgaard

With Tom Harrell

With Billy Hart

With Albert Heath, Ethan Iverson

With Ben Monder

With Orange Then Blue

With Danilo Pérez

With Sam Rivers

With Chiara Civello

With Lage Lund

With David Sanchez

With Yelena Eckemoff

With Others

References

  1. ↑ Layne, Joslyn. "Ben Street Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Ben Street at All About Jazz". Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Shipton, Alyn (December 2025 – January 2026). "Billy Hart: Multidirectional". Jazzwise . No. 313. p. 48.
  4. ↑ "Ben Street | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "ECM Records".


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