Results for "Aaron Bennett"

Aaron Bennett

Born: April 4, 1966

Aaron Bennett decided to dedicate his life to music at the age of 14 after hearing John Coltrane, hoping to one day give others the feeling he felt when hearing his music. This began a long journey that he continues on today.

After earning his BA in music with an emphasis on classical saxophone performance, he then earned an MFA a in Jazz performance where he studied with some of the greatest minds in Jazz including Charlie Haden, Wadada Leo Smith, Larry Koonse and Joe Labarbara. He has also studied musics from Bali, Java, Ghana, Japan and India.

Since graduating, he has had a busy career, making music with a wide variety of amazing musicians and bands from many genre's including jazz, afro-beat, pop/rock, funk and many others, including working with the following; Wadada Leo Smith, Mykal Rose, Peter Kowald, John Butcher, Weasel Walter, Adam Lane, Aphrodesia, Lagos-Roots, The Rova Saxophone Quartet, William Hooker, Lisa Mezzacappa and Vijay Anderson.

Plays for Lovers

By Aaron Bennett

Label: Soundarts
Released: 2023
Track listing: Friday the 13th; Front Room; Polka Dots and Moon Beams; Let's Cool One; Alfie's Theme; How Deep is the Ocean; Ms. LIttle's Blues; What is This Thing Called Love.

The Aaron Bennett Trio Release 'Plays for Lovers' on Soundarts

May 12, 2023

Recorded at Guerilla Studios in Oakland on May 5th, 2022, Plays for Lovers features the trio’s unique renditions of jazz classics by Monk, Porter, Van Heusen, Berlin and Rollins as well as two original compositions by the leader; Aaron Bennett. Lead by saxophonist Aaron Bennett, this recording harkens back to a day when every jazz musician ...

Ms. Little's Blues

April 29, 2023

Album: Plays for Lovers
By Aaron Bennett
Label: Soundarts
Released: 2023
Duration: 07:00

Covers

By Vijay Anderson

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. East Coasting by Charles Mingus 2. Spooning by Butch Morris 3. Gallop's Gallop by Thelonious Monk 4. OC's Humpty Dumpty in retrograde, played rubato with bass solo 5. Nouroog by Charles Mingus 6. Hornin' In by Thelonious Monk 7. I'm Afraid by Duke Ellington 8. La Placita by Marion Brown 9. We Diddit by Mal Waldron 10. In Walked Buckner by Roscoe Mitchell

Lisa Mezzacappa: avantNOIR

by Nicola Negri
March 29, 2017

avantNOIR--an homage to the tradition of hard-boiled fiction and film noir? The imaginary soundtrack for an abstract crime novel? A reimagining of Fifties' jazz combos through the language of avant-garde? This new record by bassist Lisa Mezzacappa is all of the above and much, much more. Equally inspired by the hard-boiled novels of ...

Aaron Bennett / Darren Johnston / Lisa Mezzacappa / Frank Rosaly: Shipwreck 4

by John Sharpe
August 16, 2016

Named after the Oakland studio where the disc was recorded, the Shipwreck 4 brings together three West Coast improvisers with Chicago drummer Frank Rosaly for a program of six collectively created selections. As apparent on Everybody's Somebody's Nobody (Clean Feed, 2016), his duet with guitarist Fred Frith, trumpeter Darren Johnston's work maintains a melodic core, albeit ...

Bay Area Meets Chicago For A New Quartet CD Release With Aaron Bennett, Darren Johnston, Lisa Mezzacappa And Frank Rosaly - "Shipwreck 4"

June 16, 2016

Shipwreck 4 celebrates the first quartet meeting of jny: San Francisco Bay Area improvisers Darren Johnston, Aaron Bennett and Lisa Mezzacappa with jny: Chicago drummer Frank Rosaly. Johnston, a major figure in the Bay Area music scene, has nonetheless retained close ties to Chicago’s jazz community, and made the introductions here—the group assembled to play a ...

The Touch and Go Sextet Live at the Novara Jazz Festival

By Vijay Anderson

Label: Ninewinds
Released: 2014
Track listing: 1. Slippin' 06:44 2. Horripilation 07:45 3. Waldron 05:39 4. Delusions 12:44 5. Swift Horse 16:34 6.The Last Good Kiss/Dimond Park/Degrees of Gray 18:16 7. Endless Sin * 09:36 8. The Year of the Zinc Penny * 07:27

Touch and Go Sextet: Live at the Novara Jazz Festival

by Robert Bush
August 13, 2014

Drummer Vijay Anderson formed the Touch and Go Sextet in the Bay Area as a vehicle for performing and interpreting the works of visiting musicians, but his concurrent studies with alto sax legend Roscoe Mitchell gave him the confidence to steer this three-reed, one trumpet and double-bass ensemble into original compositions, the results of which are ...