Ben Street
American musician

Ben Street

BiographyGalleryFAQListsAlso Viewed
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
American musician
Gender:
Male
Places:
United States of America
Is:
Jazz musician
Work field:
Music
Biography menu
Menu

Jump to

Introduction Discography
The details
Biography

Introduction

For the Canadian ice hockey player, see Ben Street (ice hockey).
Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Street, and Rodney Green

Ben Street is an American jazz double bassist. Street has performed and recorded with many renowned artists, including John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Ben Monder, Michael Eckroth, Sam Rivers, Billy Hart, Danilo Perez, and Adam Cruz, among others.

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

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

Discography

With Anthony Coleman

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

With Kurt Rosenwinkel

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

With Jakob Bro

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

With Andrew Cyrille, Søren Kjœrgaard

  • Optics (Ilk, 2008)
  • Open Opus (Ilk, 2010)
  • Femklang (Ilk, 2012)

With Billy Hart

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

With Albert Heath, Ethan Iverson

  • Tootie's Tempo (Sunnyside, 2013)
  • Philadelphia Beat (Sunnyside, 2015)

With Ben Monder

  • Dust (Arabesque, 1997)

With Orange Then Blue

  • 1999 Hold the Elevator: Live in Europe & Other Haunts

With Danilo Pérez

  • 2003 ...Till Then
  • 2005 Live at the Jazz Showcase
  • 2010 Providencia

With Sam Rivers

  • 2005 Purple Violets
  • 2005 Violet Violets

With Chiara Civello

  • 2005 Last Quarter Moon
  • 2007 The Space Between

With Lage Lund

  • 2010 Unlikely Stories
  • 2012 Live at Smalls
  • 2013 Foolhardy
  • 2015 Idlewild

With David Sanchez

  • 2004 Coral
  • 2008 Cultural Survival

With Others