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09-05-2006, 03:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wisconsin | | | Ben Street
The Sunday night headliner at this year's Fox Jazz Fest in Appleton, WI (held every Labor Day Weekend) was saxophonist David Sanchez and his band. The bass player, Mr. Ben Street, needed a bass for the gig.
I was asked by the event organizers if Ben could use my German carved. I agreed and was not disappointed.
Ben was a very cool guy even though the band had a rough day of travel and arrived just a couple hours before the gig.
The man sure made my bass sing. They had the bass high in the mix and he sounded amazing. Hard swinging walking lines, very cool approaches to the lating songs, and good solos.
I have heard some of Ben's music on some Kurt Rosenwinkel albums. Meeting him, and seeing him play in person was a very cool experience.
I attached some pics of the gig.
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09-05-2006, 04:47 PM
| | Inadvertent Microtonalist | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Portland, ME | | | Way! Who's drumming?
Mr. Street is one of about seven children of the saxophonist, mouthpiece-maker and educator Bill Street of Gorham, Maine. I saw Ben play with Mark Turner and Jeff Ballard at the University in Gorham once; he's all you say and more!
Knowing his dad (and some of the rest of his family) it's no surprise.
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09-05-2006, 04:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Boston, Massachusetts | | | ben street is sick!!!
yeah, i saw ben street at newport with kurt last year it was great. |
09-05-2006, 05:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Verona - Italy | | | Ben is one of the most interesting bass players of our times, period. |
09-05-2006, 06:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Manhattan (Hell's Kitchen), NY | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Sam Sherry Way! Who's drumming? | that looks like Adam Cruz... and definitely my Berklee colleague Lage Lund on guitar. Watch out for him :-)
-Marco |
09-05-2006, 08:14 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Aguilar Amplification & LaBella Strings | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: NYC | | | That's Adam Cruz on drums. I took him on his first road gig in '91, he's come a long way since. I saw him and Ben in Puerto Rico last week, great guys.
Easy,
R |
09-06-2006, 02:40 PM
|  | Official Forum Flunkee | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA | | W00t, he's coming with Kurt and Torninho Horta next month to Yoshi's!!!!  I saw him play with Donny McCaslin & Adam Cruz at the 55 Bar last year. Good times. |
09-08-2006, 12:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Ben is my favorite contempoaray bassist. He's one of those players who makes every note count. |
09-13-2006, 11:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: London, UK | | I've been listening a lot the last few days to the new Billy Hart album, 'Quartet'. Ben Street is the bassist on it, Mark Turner tenor and Ethan Iverson piano.
Its a great record, really intricate interaction, and the bass playing is great. beautiful tone, and keeps everything together when billy hart is getting very wild!
highly reccomended, theres a review here: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=22999 |
09-13-2006, 02:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Verona - Italy | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by oliebrice I've been listening a lot the last few days to the new Billy Hart album, 'Quartet'. Ben Street is the bassist on it, Mark Turner tenor and Ethan Iverson piano.
Its a great record, really intricate interaction, and the bass playing is great. beautiful tone, and keeps everything together when billy hart is getting very wild!
highly reccomended, theres a review here: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=22999 |
Yes, I have it too. I don't think it's a great record, but Ben is playing great as usual. He really understands his role and keeps in his hands the bottom of the music. Also, listen to his tone...wow! |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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