Ben monder biography
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Ben Monder
American jazz guitarist
Musical artist
Ben Monder (born May 24, 1962) is an American modern jazz guitarist.
Biography
Monder started playing guitar when he was eleven, after two years on violin.
Ben monder biography
From 1979–84, he attended the Westchester Conservatory of Music, the University of Miami, and Queens College. One of his early jobs was in 1986 when he performed with Jack McDuff.[1]
In 1995 he recorded his debut album, Flux, featuring drummer Jim Black and bassist Drew Gress.[2] This was followed by the trio recording Dust (1996) and the quartet recording Excavation (2000) which added vocalist Theo Bleckmann.
Bloom, a 2001 recording (an improvisation recorded in a single day) with saxophone player Bill McHenry, wasn't released until 2010. In between, he released Oceana (2005), a genre-bending solo album, and The Distance (2006), an album with pianist Chris Gestrin and drummer Dylan van der Schyff.
In 2007, he recorded At Night with Theo