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A versatile acoustic bassist with an adventurous spirit, Ben Allison has often excelled in avant-garde settings but has proven himself to be equally capable of playing hard bop

Songwriter Ben Bernie was a popular bandleader of the late ’20s and ’30s who is best known as the composer of “Sweet Georgia Brown” Born Benjamin Anzelwitz in N

Ben Black is a promising but obscure jazz vocalist who frequently performed around Seattle in the 1990s Like Jimmy Scott, Black has been influenced by female singers to the point that he often sounds like he could be one himself

West Coast player who had two recording sessions in early ’60s Mixed bop, cool and mainstream elements in his playing style ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

As the Blue Note Records house drummer during the early ’60s, Ben Dixon played on many of the most influential and enduring sessions in the soul-jazz canon, including landmark dates alongside Grant Green, Lou Donaldson, and Big John Patton

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Clarinetist Ben Goldberg was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, later earning an undergraduate music degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a subsequent Master of Arts in Composition from Mills College

Defying the extensive odds against being successful, Ben Grisafi put together a 19-piece big band in 1993 Working out of Baldwin, Long Island, Grisafi has a veritable goldmine of players to choose from, many of them veterans of the big band era, having played with such towers of those times as Harry James, Glenn Miller, the Dorsey Brothers, Stan Kenton, and Billy May, to name just a few

Ben James’ love of music goes back to his childhood He began cultivating his musical interest by playing songs on the harmonica at the age of eight He then began to experiment with the guitar at the age of sixteen, and found he had a talent within himself

Ironically, two of Canada’s most famous people are named Oscar Peterson and Ben Johnson, but the Johnson of renown is an athlete, not a musician such as Peterson Illustrious pianist Peterson did perform and record nonetheless with a guitarist named Ben Johnson

Guitarist Ben Monder has secured his place as one of most identifiable and sought-after stylists on the progressive jazz scene, an heir to the ethereal yet edgy approach of players such as John Abercrombie and Bill Frisell

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