Aaron Bennett Trio


Aaron's latest recording with this trio, "Live at SFJAZZ", is available on Bandcamp: https://aaronbennett.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-sfjazz

The trio's first recording "Plays for Lovers", is also available on Bandcamp: https://aaronbennett.bandcamp.com/album/plays-for-lovers



Saxophonist and composer Aaron Bennett earned a BA in music at Cal State Long Beach with an emphasis on classical saxophone performance. He then earned an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in Jazz performance, where he studied with Wadada Leo Smith, Larry Koonse, Joe Labarbera, and Charlie Haden. In addition to his jazz training, he has also explored a diverse range of musical traditions from Bali, Java, Ghana, Japan, and India.

Since then, he has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Mykal Rose, Peter Kowald, John Butcher, Adam Lane, Aphrodesia, Lagos-Roots, The Rova Saxophone Quartet, William Hooker, Lisa Mezzacappa and Vijay Anderson

He has performed at clubs and festivals across the U.S. and abroad, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, and the Novara Jazz Festival in Italy.

He played here previously with the Vijay Anderson Quartet, and the Aaron Bennett Trio.

http://www.aarondavidbennett.com/



Bassist Dan Seamans grew up in Washington, DC.

While completing a music degree at UC Santa Cruz he studied string bass with Larry Epstein, Mel Graves, and Michael Willens, and collaborated with pianist Graham Connah.

Moving to Oakland, he played with Bill Bell, Donald Bailey, Mark Levine, and John Schott, and co-founded the New Klezmer Trio, with Ben Goldberg and Kenny Wollesen, a group which went on to do several European tours, and record three CDs on John Zorn's Tzadik label.

During a period in Southern Vermont, he was mentored by master guitarist Attila Zoller.

He has played with the Lost Trio since 1994, and appears on 6 of their cds.

Dan appeared here previously with the Lost Trio, the Lost Trio with Scott Foster, the Vijay Anderson Quartet, and the Aaron Bennett Trio.



Tim Bulkley is a drummer and artist located in the Northern California area.

Tim is known for a musical, intuitive approach to drumming. He grew up taking piano lessons, taking art classes, singing in choirs, and studying the drums. His professional career as a musician started early and has stayed a constant for over 25 years. Tim spent the years of 2006 - 2017 living and working in Brooklyn NY & 2000 - 2006 living and working in San Francisco CA.

He has played and recorded with artists including Dayna Stephens, Michelle Amador, Goh Nakamura, Evan Francis, Anton Schwartz, The Invisible Cities, John Lester, Postmodern Jukebox, Adam Platt, Stacey Kent, Boz Scaggs, Peter Bernstein, Telepathy, Wil Blades, Dandelion Dance Company, and BodyVox Dance.

He appeared previously at Chez Hanny with Julian Pollack, MCH Quartet, Jeff Buenz, Dan Blake, Gatekeeper, Matt Renzi, and Loren Stillman.

https://www.timbulkley.com/



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