Benny Benack III Quartet

Show: $40 Showtimes: 7:15 - 8:30 (Doors Open 6:45) 9:30 - 10:45 (Doors Open 9:00) Voted “#1 Rising Star Male Vocalist” (#8 Rising Star Trumpet) in 2024 DownBeat Magazine Annual Critics Poll. Benny Benack III is a fiery trumpet player and singer performing standards and his own astute compositions with a thrilling sense of showmanship. A graduate of The Manhattan School of Music, Benny won the 2011 Carmine Caruso Trumpet Competition and was a 2014 finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Benack is a regular headliner at New York City’s most famed venues including Birdland, Mezzrow, The Django, Smalls Jazz Club, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He’s performed widely as a frontman for Postmodern Jukebox and worked with countless jazz artists including Ulysses Owens Jr., Christian McBride, Aaron Johnson, Ann Hampton-Calloway and Joey DeFrancesco. Benny tours extensively in the United States and around the World playing celebrated clubs and festivals. He’s played on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" in the Late Show House Band and was the house-trumpet player for NBC's summer variety show, "Maya & Marty.” In 2020, Benny released A Lot of Livin’ to Do featuring bassist Christian McBride, drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr., and Takeshi Ohbayashi on piano. He released his third studio album, Third Time's the Charm, in 2023 to rave reviews. The album features stars such as Peter Bernstein, Emmet Cohen, Bria Skonberg, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, and more. Benny is a sought-after educator, conducting masterclasses around the world, including the New York Youth Symphony and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Jazz for Young People” program. “A trumpeter, vocalist, writer and arranger with a swaggering soul and the chops to back up the panache.” — All About Jazz “The vocalizing trumpeter is overloaded with talent, charm, and star quality.” — Broadway World “Benny has an old soul, a quick mind and a big heart, and his music reflects both his love for the jazz tradition and his ear for the modern sound.” — JAZZIZ