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About

Booking & Event Inquiries:

 

bennettjazzkeys@gmail.com

 

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Some of Bennett's career highlights & current endeavors include:

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  • Appearances at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, Yoshi’s, SFJAZZ Center, Shoreline Amphitheater, Great American Music Hall (San Francisco), Feinstein's at Vitello's (Los Angeles), The Guild Theatre, The National Black Theater Festival, Oakland Art & Soul Festival, Herbst Theater, Black Cat Jazz Club, and countless other venues, festivals, and events.

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  • Serving as Creative Arts Director at The Riekes Center for Human Enhancement in Menlo Park, CA, teaching piano, drums, bass, composition, band classes, hip-hop songwriting, and electronic music production.

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  • Teaching jazz piano as adjunct music faculty at

       West Valley Community College

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  • Performing alongside some of jazz’s top-flight musicians including Matt Wilson, John Handy, Aaron Lington, Wally Schnalle, Carl Allen, Marc Sherman, Steffen Kuehn, John Worley, John Shifflett, Jason Lewis, Tony Lindsay, Mike Williams, Jamie Davis, Lorca Hart, Idris Ackamoor, Eugenie Jones, and more. In addition, appearing with a variety of ensembles as part of opening acts for artists such as B.o.B., Teedra Moses, Moonchild, Tamar Braxton, Haley Reinhart, Goapele, Mac Mall, Lyrics Born, and more.

BENNETT ROTH-NEWELL
PIANIST, EMCEE, COMPOSER, EDUCATOR

Bennett Roth-Newell is a pianist/keyboardist, composer/arranger, emcee, producer, and multi-genre music educator based in the

San Francisco Bay Area. Bennett began piano lessons when he

was 7 years old and by age 10 became fascinated with jazz.

After playing mostly classical music during his first few years

of studying piano, Bennett set off on a path of learning jazz standards and immersed himself in the music of the jazz

giants—especially of legendary jazz pianists Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, and Bill Evans—while practicing determinedly

to develop his sound on the piano as an improviser. Starting as

a teenager, he also found a love in hip-hop music and began

honing his craft as a lyricist, recording artist, producer, and

live performer.

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He studied jazz piano with John Simon and jazz arranging with trombonist/composer Doug Leibinger. He completed his undergraduate education as Distinguished Graduate in

Jazz Studies. Bennett ventured to San Jose State University

directly after and completed a master’s degree in jazz studies

while studying jazz composition and arranging with saxophonist/composer Aaron Lington and jazz piano

with the late esteemed pianist Frank Sumares.

 

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