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Christmas Time Is Here
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30163
Skating
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30163
O Tannenbaum
Traditional
Steinway & Sons/30163
Carol of the Bells
Leontovych, Mykola
Steinway & Sons/30163
Christmas Is Coming
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30163
My Little Drum
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30163
The Sound of Music: My favorite things
Rodgers, Richard
Steinway & Sons/30163
Peppermint Patty
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30163
You're in Love Charlie Brown
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30163
The Christmas Song
Torme, Mel
Steinway & Sons/30163
Pebble Beach
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30163
What child is this?
Traditional
Steinway & Sons/30163
Red Baron
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30163
Linus and Lucy
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30163
Santa Claus is comin' to town
Coots, John Frederic
Steinway & Sons/30163
Oh, Good Grief
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30163
Just Like Me
Benoit, David
Steinway & Sons/30163
Festgesang "Hark! The herald angels sing"
Mendelssohn, Felix
Steinway & Sons/30163
The Great Pumpkin Waltz
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30165
Kei's Song
Benoit, David
Steinway & Sons/30066
Every Step of the Way
Benoit, David
Steinway & Sons/30066
Letter to Evan
Benoit, David
Steinway & Sons/30066
I Remember Bill Evans
Benoit, David
Steinway & Sons/30066
Strange Meadowlark
Brubeck, Dave
Steinway & Sons/30066
Dad's Room
Benoit, David
Steinway & Sons/30066
Once Running Free
Benoit, David
Steinway & Sons/30066
Rainbows
Benoit, David
Steinway & Sons/30066
Your Song
John, Elton
Steinway & Sons/30066
Candide/Send in the Clowns
Bernstein/Sondheim
Steinway & Sons/30066
Etudes for the Contemporary Pianist
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Journey in a Rental Car
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I Miss You
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A Solitary Moment by the Ocean
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Lonely Boy
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Scherzo (For Charles Brown)
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Kenji
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Betty's Dance
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Peacock Fallen
Benoit, David
Steinway & Sons/30066
Linus and Lucy
Guaraldi, Vince
Steinway & Sons/30066
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It's A David Benoit Christmas!
Release Date:
10/02/2020
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Steinway & Sons
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30163
The Great Pumpkin Waltz / David Benoit
Release Date:
10/02/2020
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Steinway & Sons
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30165
David Benoit - The Steinway Sessions
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05/19/2017
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Steinway & Sons
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30066
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Biography
For three decades, the GRAMMY®-nominated pianist/composer/ arranger David Benoit has reigned supreme as one the founding fathers of contemporary jazz. But, like an actor who has been known primarily for one role, he wanted to show other dimensions of his artistry, influenced by Stephen Sondheim, Burt Bacharach, Dave Grusin and Leonard Bernstein.
At the age of thirteen, Benoit studied privately with pianist Marya Cressy Wright and continued his training with Abraham Fraser, who was the pianist for famed conductor Arturo Toscanini. He also studied music theory and composition, and later studied orchestration with Donald Nelligan at El Camino Junior College and film scoring from Donald Ray at UCLA. He studied conducting from Heiichiro Ohyama, assistant conductor of the L.A. Philharmonic, and furthered his musical education with Jan Robertson, head of the conducting department at UCLA, and UC Santa Barbara symphony orchestra music director Jeffrey Schindler.
After working with Lainie Kazan as her musical director/conductor in 1976, Benoit released albums on the AVI label from 1977 to 1984. He later released several chart-topping recordings for GRP, including Freedom at Midnight (1987), Waiting for Spring (1989) and Shadows (1991), which both topped Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Charts at #5, #1, and #2, respectively. His other noteworthy recordings include Letter to Evan (1992), his tribute to another piano influence, Bill Evans, and Here’s to You, Charlie Brown: Fifty Great Years (2000). Benoit also recorded with Russ Freeman on their album The Benoit/Freeman Project (1994), and on their follow-up collaboration, 2 (2004), which was released on Peak Records. His other recordings for the label include American Landscape (1997) and Orchestral Stories (2005), which featured his first piano concerto, “The Centaur and the Sphinx,” and a symphonic work, “Kobe.”. In 2012, he released Conversation on Concord’s Heads Up International imprint.
Benoit received three GRAMMY® nominations in the categories of Best Contemporary Jazz Performance for “Every Step of the Way” (1989), Best Large Ensemble Performance for GRP All-Star Big Band (1996), and Best Instrumental Composition for “Dad’s Room,” the latter from the album Professional Dreamer (2000). In 2010, Benoit received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Smooth Jazz Awards, and he’s worked with an impressive potpourri of musicians including the Rippingtons, Emily Remler, Alphonse Mouzon, Dave Koz, Faith Hill, David Sanborn, CeCe Winans and Brian McKnight.
Benoit’s film scores include The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995), produced by Clint Eastwood, and The Christmas Tree, produced by Sally Field, which was voted Best Score of 1996 by Film Score Monthly. He has served as conductor with a wide range of symphonies including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Asia America Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. A long-time guest educator with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, he received that organization’s Excellence in Music Award in 2001. His musical selections have been featured on The Weather Channel and his version of Vince Guaraldi’s “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” is included on compilation The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz 11 (2008).
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