11/19/2024
Up next we have local ICON . AND it’s an album release party! This Friday! Show up yall! Free show, donation based (suggested donation $20). Refreshments available. Small venue, cottage style seating in a historic venue (1930s car dealership)
About the artist:
Bennett Roth-Newell is a pianist/keyboardist, composer/arranger, emcee, producer, and multi-genre music educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bennett began piano lessons when he was 7 years old and by age 10 became fascinated with jazz.
After playing mostly classical music during his first few years of studying piano, Bennett set off on a path of learning jazz standards and immersed himself in the music of the jazz giants—especially of legendary jazz pianists Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, and Bill Evans—while practicing determinedly to develop his sound on the piano as an improviser. Starting as a teenager, he also found a love in hip-hop music and began honing his craft as a lyricist, recording artist, producer, and live performer.
He studied jazz piano with John Simon and jazz arranging with trombonist/composer Doug Leibinger. He completed his undergraduate education as Distinguished Graduate in Jazz Studies. Bennett ventured to San Jose State University directly after and completed a master’s degree in jazz studies while studying jazz composition and arranging with saxophonist/composer Aaron Lington and jazz piano with the late esteemed pianist Frank Sumares.
Some of Bennett’s career highlights & current endeavors include:
Appearances at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, Yoshi’s, SFJAZZ Center, Shoreline Amphitheater, Great American Music Hall (San Francisco), Feinstein’s at Vitello’s (Los Angeles), The Guild Theatre, The National Black Theater Festival, Oakland Art & Soul Festival, Herbst Theater, Black Cat Jazz Club, and countless other venues, festivals, and events.
An intimate concert series at Little Green A Plant Bar on 2nd and 3rd Fridays. IG:
