Benny Benack III with Bill Cunliffe Trio plus Grant Geissman at Sunset Jazz At Newport Summer Series at Bistango Restaurant

About

By age 28, trumpeter and singer Benny Benack III has proven to
be a rare talent: not only a fiery trumpet player with a stirring command of the postbop trumpet vernacular in the vein of Kenny Dorham and Blue Mitchell, but also a singer with a sly, mature, naturally expressive delivery in the post-Sinatra mold, performing
standards and his own astute songs with a thrilling sense of showmanship.  His superb intonation and bracing virtuosity enable him to handle astounding feats of originally composed vocalese (complex solos with written lyrics). And he’s a highly capable pianist
as well.