Search - Artist/Band: Ben Goldberg

• Name: Ben Goldberg
• Decades Active: 1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jewish Music, Klezmer, Progressive Jazz, Post-Bop
• Moods: Cerebral, Enigmatic, Autumnal, Bittersweet, Complex, Earnest, Knotty, Melancholy, Plaintive, Reverent, Searching, Sentimental, Somber, Yearning

Title	Release
Speech Communication WA	08/25/2009
The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact	02/21/2006
Almost Never WA	1999
Twelve Minor WA	07/21/1998
Eight Phrases for Jefferson Rubin WA	04/28/1998
Here by Now	01/20/1998
What Comes Before WA	01/20/1998
The Relative Value of Things	1992
Baal: The Book of Angels, Vol. 15
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Clarinetist Ben Goldberg was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, later earning an undergraduate music degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a subsequent Master of Arts in Composition from Mills College. A student of Rosario Mazzeo, Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano, Goldberg initially won acclaim as a member of the New Klezmer Trio, debuting in 1991 with Masks and Faces; two years later he won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to mount a retrospective series spotlighting the music of key American jazz composers including Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols, a project on which he collaborated with the likes of Andrew Hill and Bobby Bradford. After teaming with Kenny Wollesen for the 1993 LP The Relative Value of Things, Goldberg resurfaced two years later with another New Klezmer Trio record, Melt Zonk Rewire; with the group Snorkel, he also contributed to 1996's Live at the Elbo Room. In 1998, Goldberg headlined no less than four new recordings -- Eight Phrases for Jefferson Rubin, Twelve Minor, Here by Now and What Comes Before. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide