Benny Benack III Tucson Jazz Festival Closing Party

($25 tickets / 7pm & 9pm sets) SPECIAL EVENT – Benny Benack III Tucson Jazz Festival Closing Party! Trumpeter and vocalist Benny Benack III was a huge hit at the Century Room, where he sold out FOUR SETS back in July. He returns to lead a band for Tucson Jazz Fest on closing night. Specials guests expected to sit in!

Benny Benack III (trumpet & vocals) Max Goldschmid (saxophone) Piano (TBA) Bass (TBA) Arthur Vint (drums)

By age 31, Emmy-nominated trumpeter and singer Benny Benack III has proven to be that rarest of talents: not only a fiery trumpet player with a stirring command of the postbop trumpet vernacular in the vein of Kenny Dorham and Freddie Hubbard, 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. His superb intonation and bracing virtuosity enable him to handle astounding feats of originally composed vocalese (complex solos with written lyrics). On top of it all, he’s a highly capable pianist as well.