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.
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. He is currently an Associate Professor of jazz piano 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) 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) 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
External links
Official website
Blog posts by Adam Benjamin on the Greenleaf Music blog
Jazz Times Review of Alphabets and Consequences
American jazz keyboardists
Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) California Institute of the Arts alumni Eastman School of Music alumni Jazz musicians from Los Angeles Living people 21st-century American keyboardists Kneebody members