Ben Street

Ben Street is an American double bassist known for his elegant, harmonically astute approach to post-bop and modern creative jazz. A native of Maine and the son of saxophonist Bill Street, he studied at the New England Conservatory and worked with Miroslav Vitous and Dave Holland in Boston before moving to New York in 1991. He is a core member of drummer Billy Hart's quartet alongside saxophonist Mark Turner and pianist Ethan Iverson, a group documented on ECM albums including All Our Reasons (2012) and One Is the Other (2014). Street also plays in Andrew Cyrille's quartet with guitarist Bill Frisell, appearing on The Declaration of Musical Independence (2016), and has recorded widely with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Danilo Perez, Sam Rivers, and Aaron Parks.