Bennett Paster & Taylor Eigsti at Stanford Jazz Festival at

A creative and versatile keyboardist, New York-based Bennett Paster has paid his dues with stars like Kurt Elling, Wallace Roney, Robben Ford, Yosvany Terry, Keb’ Mo’ and Bill Stewart, among many others. Equally comfortable on keyboards from piano to Hammond B-3 and a variety of synthesizers, Paster’s ability to transcend genres has made him a popular sideman and he appears on over 100 studio recordings. Likewise, he has toured extensively throughout the U.S., the Caribbean and Europe. One of Paster’s own Latin jazz projects, Grupo Yanqui, performed internationally with a program sponsored by the U.S...

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A creative and versatile keyboardist, New York-based Bennett Paster has paid his dues with stars like Kurt Elling, Wallace Roney, Robben Ford, Yosvany Terry, Keb’ Mo’ and Bill Stewart, among many others. Equally comfortable on keyboards from piano to Hammond B-3 and a variety of synthesizers, Paster’s ability to transcend genres has made him a popular sideman and he appears on over 100 studio recordings. Likewise, he has toured extensively throughout the U.S., the Caribbean and Europe. One of Paster’s own Latin jazz projects, Grupo Yanqui, performed internationally with a program sponsored by the U.S. State Department and Jazz at Lincoln Center. In addition to his busy gigging schedule, Bennett also works as a producer and recording engineer from his own Brooklyn studio, Benny’s Wash & Dry. For this SJF date he is joined by another great pianist, Taylor Eigsti.

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