Category david benoit

David Benoit Returns

Contemporary jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and arranger David Benoit feels new energy after a recent kidney transplant. “I’ve been given this incredible gift… and I feel like I can almost start over again.” In a good article by Bondo Wyszpolski,…

John Hilderbrand
April 22, 2023

cover to The Benoit/Freeman Project a collaboration album by contemporary jazz musicians David Benoit and Russ Freeman

The Benoit/Freeman Project Review

On 2.22.22 (Feb. 22, 2022), I was thinking about duets and some of my favorites. One that immediately came to mind was the first Benoit/Freeman Project. Here’s the review I wrote for a newsletter I wrote and designed for KBIA,…

John Hilderbrand
March 1, 2022
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Early 2002 contemporary jazz releases - Chicago Experiment, David Benoit, Robert Glasper

Upcoming Jazz Releases – Robert Glasper, David Benoit, The Chicago Experiment

Get your 2022 off on the right foot with new jazz! The Chicago Experiment is the next in a series of the Ropeadope’s Experiment series. The label says that “at a time when communities are physically disconnected, and even history…

John Hilderbrand
January 23, 2022