Ben Street

Ben Street is an American jazz double bassist.

Street studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with Miroslav Vitous and Dave Holland. In 1991 he came to New York. Here he took up with avant-garde jazz musicians such as Tim Berne and Kenny Wollesen. He also worked with Lee Konitz and as a sideman with pianist Danilo Perez, Jakob Bro, Ben Monder, Sam Rivers, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Joey Calderazzo, Gene Bertoncini, Bobby Selvaggio, Eugene Maslov, Dominique Eade, Cyndi Lauper, Manuel Valera, the Frank Carlsberg Quintet, the group Once Blue and others.

The Maine Street Jazz Quartet ( with Bill Street, Daniel Strange and Jonathan May ), he joined in 2005 as part of a cultural exchange program of the University of Southern Maine in Greece and there was jazz courses. In the summer of 2009, he was with Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet on tour in Europe. Since 2010 he is touring as part of the John Scofield Trio (with Bill Stewart) in the USA.