Marco Benevento is a young keyboardist whose jazz-rooted work has expanded to include indie rock, jam band and experimental post-rock influences. Born in 1977 and raised in the northern New Jersey town of Livingston, Benevento studied piano and befriended an aspiring drummer named Joe Russo in a junior high detention hall. After high school, while Russo migrated westward to Boulder, Colorado and fell into the hippie jam band scene there, the more jazz inclined Benevento moved to Boston to attend the Berklee School of Music, from which he graduated in 1999 after studying keyboards under noted jazz pianist and instructor JoAnne Brackeen.
Following college, Benevento formed a popular Boston-area improvisational outfit called the Jazz Farmers, which split up when Benevento resettled in New York City in 2001.
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