Ben Street

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Ben Street
Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson

Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Street, and Rodney Green

Ben Street is an American jazz double bassist.^[1]

Street has performed and recorded with many renowned artists including John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Ben Monder, Sam Rivers, Billy Hart, Danilo Perez, and Adam Cruz, among others.^[2][3]

He studied the acoustic bass with Buster Williams and the former Weather Report bassist Miroslav Vitous.^[4]

He is the son of saxophonist and saxophone mouthpiece maker Bill Street and is native of Maine.

Discography

With Yelena Eckemoff

• Leaving Everything Behind (L & H Production, 2016)

With Jakob Bro

• The Stars Are All New Songs (Loveland, 2008)
• Balladeering (Loveland, 2009)

With Anthony Coleman

• Morenica (Tzadik, 1998)
• Our Beautiful Garden is Open (Tzadik, 2002)

With Billy Hart

• Billy Hart Quartet (High Note, 2006)
• All Our Reasons (ECM, 2012)
• One Is the Other (ECM, 2014)

With Kurt Rosenwinkel

• The Enemies of Energy (Verve, 2000)
• The Next Step (Verve, 2001)
• Heartcore (Verve, 2003)

With David Virelles

• Continuum (Pi Records, 2012)

Notes

1. Layne, Joslyn. "Ben Street Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
2. Layne, Joslyn. "Ben Street Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
3. "Ben Street Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
4. "Ben Street at All About Jazz". Retrieved 9 April 2010.