Benny Benack III Quartet at Peperoncino Jazz Festival: New York Session at Spring Place

The fourth performance of the “Peperoncino Jazz Festival New York Session” will be hosted in another highly prestigious venue: the Spring Place in Tribeca, which will have the Benny Benack III quartet.
Benny is an American artist but his roots are Italian. Emmy-nominated, Benny, not only is a fiery trumpet player with a stirring command of the postbop trumpet vernacular 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. This duel-threat ability was recognized by the 2022 Downbeat Critics Poll where he appeared as not only the #2 Rising Star Male Vocalist, but a top Rising Star Trumpeter as well. ...

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The fourth performance of the “Peperoncino Jazz Festival New York Session” will be hosted in another highly prestigious venue: the Spring Place in Tribeca, which will have the Benny Benack III quartet.
Benny is an American artist but his roots are Italian. Emmy-nominated, Benny, not only is a fiery trumpet player with a stirring command of the postbop trumpet vernacular 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. This duel-threat ability was recognized by the 2022 Downbeat Critics Poll where he appeared as not only the #2 Rising Star Male Vocalist, but a top Rising Star Trumpeter as well.
Accompanied by Leo Larratt (australian-born guitaris), the powerful bassist Joseph Lepore (Italian-born musician, composer and educator living in New York) and the neapolitan drummer Elio Coppola (Benny Golson, Joey De Francesco, Peter Bernstein etc).

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