Don Bennett

An underground tale in Chicago, Don Bennett hasn’t gotten the reputation he deserves like a pianist along with a skill scout. He began piano lessons when he was four and was area of the Chicago jazz picture by the past due ’50s, influenced by Ahmad Jamal, whom he utilized to see on the nightly basis. In the 1960s, Bennett shifted to LA, researched with Phineas Newborn, and done the local picture with Harold Property, Carmell Jones and Curtis Amy, amongst others. He cut an recording with Amy in the past due ’60s and led a trio day after time for Chicago, but neither possess have you been released. In 1978, he quit music completely, working at a number of day time careers (including as an exclusive investigator) for a decade. In 1988, Bennett came back to jazz along with his skills unimpaired. He spent period living in NYC and then shifted to Holland in 1993. Bennett lower a Compact disc in Chicago in 1990 for the Southport label, that was later on reissued by Candid. Furthermore to such good players as trumpeter Arthur Hoyle and tenor saxophonist Ed Peterson, Bennett presented the young unfamiliar Artwork Porter (on alto and soprano) for the bop-oriented materials, including five from the leader’s originals.