Samm Bennett

Samm Bennett

Samm Bennett (b. Birmingham, Alabama, 1957) , is an American singer/songwriter and percussionist.

As a singer and songwriter he has released three albums (all on the Knitting Factory label, and for the time being out of print): 1991's "Life of Crime", 1993's "The Big Off" and 1995's "History of the Last 5 Minutes". He was a founding member (along with the late Tom Cora, cello) of the free improvisation group Third Person, and was a founding member (along with Hahn Rowe, Yuval Gabay and Kumiko Kimoto) of the New York group Bosho. He was also a part of the trio Semantics, which explored complex overlapping rhythms with a jazz instrumentation.

More recently his work with his duo project Skist (with vocalist Haruna Ito) has been released on Japan's POLARITY label: 2002's "Ellipsis" and 2006's "Taking Something Somewhere".

He has also recorded or performed with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, Kazutoki Umezu, and many others,

External links

*Official homepage http://www.polarityrecords.net/sammbennett/sammbennett.html
*http://profile.myspace.com/sammbennett
*Interview with Samm Bennett http://gyaku.jp/en/index.php?cmd=contentview&pid=000087


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