Adam Benjamin (musician)
Adam Benjamin is an American jazz keyboardist and composer. He is a founding member of Kneebody, and leads an active career as a performer and writer. He has been recognized as a Rising Star in Jazz by Downbeat Magazine.[1]
Background
Benjamin attended the Eastman School of Music and California Institute for the Arts, where he received a bachelor's and master's degree in jazz studies. Since then, he has performed at numerous festivals and clinics with groups such as Kneebody, Dave Douglas's Keystone, So Percussion, Beck, and Joshua Redman. He has served as adjunct faculty at California Institute of the Arts, University of Southern California, the School for Improvisational Music, and the Banff Jazz Workshop.[2] He is currently serving as the jazz piano instructor at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he resides.
Discography
As leader
- 2007: It's A Standard, Standard, Standard, Standard World
- 2008: Long Gone
- 2010: Alphabets & Consequences
With Kneebody
- Wendel (2002)
- Kneebody (2005)
- Low Electrical Worker (2007)
- Kneebody Live: Volume One (2007)
- Twelve Songs By Charles Ives (2009) (with Theo Bleckmann)
- Kneebody Live: Volume Two: Live in Italy (2009)
- You Can Have Your Moment (2010)
- Kneebody Live: Volume Three: Live in Paris (2011)
- The Line (2013)
- Kneedelus (2015) (with Daedelus)
- Anti-Hero (2017)
- By Fire (2019)
- Chapters (2019)
As sideman
With Dave Douglas & Keystone
- Live in Sweden (Greenleaf, 2005)
- Moonshine (Greenleaf, 2007)
- Live at Jazz Standard (2008)
- Spark of Being: Expand (2010)
With Donny McCaslin
- Perpetual Motion (2010)
With Jimmy Chamberlin
- Life Begins Again (2005)
With Darek Oleskiewicz
- Like A Dream (2004)
References
- "57th Annual Critics Poll". Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
- "Adam Benjamin Biography - The Banff Centre". Banffcentre.ca. Archived from the original on 2012-07-21. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
