Ben Street

For the Canadian ice hockey player, see Ben Street (ice hockey).

Ben Street
Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson

Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Street, and Rodney Green

Ben Street is an American jazz double bassist.

Street has performed and recorded with many renowned artists including John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Ben Monder, Sam Rivers, Billy Hart, Danilo Perez, and Adam Cruz, among others.

He studied the acoustic bass with Buster Williams and the former Weather Report bassist Miroslav Vitous.

He is the son of saxophonist and saxophone mouthpiece maker Bill Street and is native of Maine.

Discography

With Yelena Eckemoff

• Leaving Everything Behind (L & H Production, 2016)

With Jakob Bro

• The Stars Are All New Songs (Loveland, 2008)
• Balladeering (Loveland, 2009)

With Anthony Coleman

• Morenica (Tzadik, 1998)
• Our Beautiful Garden is Open (Tzadik, 2002)

With Billy Hart

• Billy Hart Quartet (High Note, 2006)
• All Our Reasons (ECM, 2012)
• One Is the Other (ECM, 2014)

With Kurt Rosenwinkel

• The Enemies of Energy (Verve, 2000)
• The Next Step (Verve, 2001)
• Heartcore (Verve, 2003)

With David Virelles

• Continuum (Pi Records, 2012)