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Here to There

By Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose & Scott Amendola

Label: Secret Hatch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: In Walked; Self Evident; Porch Concert Material 9; Lions Heart; Sad Trophy; Here to There; Porch Concert Material 2; Interospection; Lions Heart 2; Porch Concert Material 6; Lions Heart 3.

Ben Goldberg / Todd Sickafoose / Scott Amendola: Here to There

by Mark Corroto
December 7, 2024

There was a very good reason that James Brown would shout “take me to the bridge." In an interview, he explained: “I heard someone use that expression maybe 45 years ago, referring to the middle part of a song, and I changed it to mean a release." Clarinetist Ben Goldberg, bassist Todd Sickafoose and drummer Scott ...

Ben Goldberg

Clarinetist / Composer Ben Goldberg grew up in Denver, Colorado. He received his undergraduate music degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Master of Arts in Composition from Mills College. He was a pupil of the eminent clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, and studied with Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano. In addition to composing for and playing in the Ben Goldberg Quintet, he currently performs in the following groups: Tin Hat; plays monk, a trio with Scott Amendola and Devin Hoff; Myra Melford’s Be Bread; Nels Cline’s New Monastery; and Go Home, a new quartet with Charlie Hunter, Ron Miles, and Scott Amendola. The 11- piece Ben Goldberg's Brainchild performs Ben's on-the-spot compositions