Samm Bennett - Live Shows: Photo Gallery
from decades past, or just snapped yesterday...
CHUNK at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland, circa 1991. This version of Chunk
featured Billy Martin on drums and Oren Bloedow on bass.
featured Billy Martin on drums and Oren Bloedow on bass.
playing WaveDrum and records, Tokyo, December 2020
on the drums, with the SainkhoKosmos band, Beijing, China, August 2017
Bennett-Kuroda, at Hobgoblin, Shibuya, Tokyo, 2019
on the Walking Drums, with Medicine Bone, at Bright Brown, Nakano, Tokyo, March 22, 2011. Photo by Milen Milenovich
on drums, with Shimaji Masahico on bass, and unidentified poet. At Tokyo Poetry Journal launch event, January 2018
Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 2009
with the Swamp Root Jimmies, at the lounge of the Hilton Hotel (!), Shinjuku, Tokyo, in the year...2016?
Skist (Samm Bennett and Haruna Ito) at Bar Gari Gari, Tokyo, 2017
Professor Bennett's House of Electro-Acoustical Mystery, Tokyo, 2019
On djembe, Shibuya Tokyo, March 2014 - photo by Marcellus Nealey
on WaveDrum and vocal with the Smoke Benders (Daysuke Takaoka, tuba & Naoya Numa, drums) at Barrelhouse, Tokyo, April 2019
on drums at Fuglen, Asakusa, Tokyo, 2019
on drums with Hiroshi "Koyu" Suzuki, bass, Daisuke Kuroda, guitar and Marcellus Nealey, poetry, vocal, Fuglen, Asakusa, Tokyo, 2019
Solo, at Cheshmeh, Sasazuka, Tokyo, April 2019
On three-string guitar with S&H (Habu Hiroshi, percussion) plus garden gnome with US passport. Yokohama, March 12, 2013
IT'S THE THREE OF SPADES! On taisho-goto, pocket fans and vibrators, and... playing cards. Koenji, Tokyo, January 2015
On drums with Ensemble Garuda, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, circa 1978. To the right is trumpeter Frank London
On drums at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, July 2014
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On diddley bow and drums, Tokyo, March 2014
On KORG WaveDrum with Umezu Kazutoki (sax) and Makigami Koichi (theremin, voice) at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, June 2016
On drums with Isao-san, guitar, at Morgan Salon, Tokyo, September 2019
Solo at Brew Dog Pub, Roppongi, Tokyo, November 2018 - photo by Julian Peters
Professor Bennett's House of Electro-Acoustical Mystery, at Cheshmeh, Tokyo, February 2020
The Mud Chuck Bobs (Samm Bennett & Sakurai Yoshiki), Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, November 2016
Bennett-Kuroda at Grand Arbre, Tokyo, January 2020
Tokyo Song Celebration # 1 (March 2019) at Fuglen, Asakusa. L to R: Jean-paul Richard, Samm Bennett, Daisuke Kuroda, Bruce Allen
Bennett-Kuroda at Campion Ale House, Asakusa, January 31, 2019
on three string guitar, Tokyo, October 2018 - photo by Kyoko Obayashi
King Cake Baby with special guest Ohkuma Wataru on clarinet, What the Dickens, Tokyo, 2017
On drums with SainkhoKosmos (Sainkho Namtchylak, Ned Rothenberg, Uchihashi Kazuhisa and Peter Scherr) at Paimpol Festival, Paimpol, France, August 2017
Bennett-Kuroda at What the Dickens, Ebisu, Tokyo, August 19, 2018. Photo by Eckhart Derschmidt
Bennett-Kuroda at What the Dickens, Ebisu, Tokyo, August 19, 2018. Photo by Eckhart Derschmidt
With Mechanical Bear (Chris Koh, violin & Masahico Shimaji, bass) at Knuttel House, Asakusa, Tokyo, 2015
Nothing quite like getting painted while you sing! Live painting: Keeda Oikawa, Morgan Fisher: keyboards. SuperDeluxe, Tokyo
Blowin' a Chinese double reed horn and workin' the twin bass drums, Delft, Holland, 1980
Squeezin' those pigs, Yokohama, 2000-something
King Cake Baby (with Hisa Nakase, Matt Gillan and Huw Lloyd) at What the Dickens, Ebisu, December 2016
On percussion with Banda Choro Eletrico, led by Sawada Jyoji, bass. December 2016. Jyoji also plays in my trio The Smoky Dose.
Just speculatin' on a hypothesis (and wearing the world's largest shirt) at Super Deluxe, Roppongi, Tokyo
On the 3-string guitar, at What the Dickens in Tokyo, May, 2016 - photo by Susan Carole
King Cake Baby at What the Dickens, Ebisu, Tokyo, February 28, 2016. Photo by Joe Zanghi
The two photos above were snapped at a one-time-only performance of a large percussion ensemble I called the Big Drum Band.
Members pictured here include Billy Martin, Tim Spelios, Yuval Gabay, David Simons and David Licht. The venue was PS 122 in New York City's East Village. Don't remember the exact year, but somewhere in the early 1990s.
Members pictured here include Billy Martin, Tim Spelios, Yuval Gabay, David Simons and David Licht. The venue was PS 122 in New York City's East Village. Don't remember the exact year, but somewhere in the early 1990s.
On KORG WaveDrum w/ bassist Jyoji Sawada at Ringoya, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, 2013. We are the Dosages. Photo by Hiroshi Moriya
With Mississippi roots and blues man Steve Gardner, barking at me for some perceived infraction, I believe, at Never Never Land, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, 2014. Photo by Colin Barey
King Cake Baby at What the Dickens, summer, 2015
On drums, and singing those New Orleans songs with King Cake Baby, at What the Dickens, Ebisu, Tokyo, October 2015
The Edogawa Echoes, live at Green Amy Cafe, Edogawabashi, Tokyo, September, 2015. Nambu Yuki, piano
S&H live at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, June 19, 2015 - photo by Julian Peters
S&H live at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, June 19, 2015 - photo by Daniel H. Rosen
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On the Walking Drum, live at Heaven's Door, May 2015 - photos by M'frame
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On the Walking Drum, live at Heaven's Door, May 2015 - photos by M'frame
With the Swamp Root Jimmies, performing at Tokyo Poetry Slam 2014. Photo by Biankah Bailey
With Keigo Iwami, bass, at Club Edge, Roppongi, Tokyo, 2014
With Datiko Gee on guitar, at Bar Gari Gari, Ikenoue, Tokyo, 2014
Doing my "One Verse for One Photo" presentation (poems to accompany projected photos)
at Tokyo PechaKucha Night, Tokyo Designers Week edition, October 2014
Photo by Michael Holmes
at Tokyo PechaKucha Night, Tokyo Designers Week edition, October 2014
Photo by Michael Holmes
at the Royal Oaks, Youngstown, Ohio, November 2013
Drumming with Rambling Steve Gardner and Hisa Nakase on bass, Westin Hotel, Tokyo, 2014
S&H at the King George Pub, Omiya, Saitama, October 2014 - photo by Julian Peters
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On KORG WaveDrum, at Club Goodman, Akihabara, Tokyo, October 0
Singing at the St. Georges Bar, Hilton Hotel, Tokyo, at the Tokyo Poetry Slam, September 21, 2014.
Swamp Root Jimmies drummer Naoya Numa behind. Photo by Colin Barey
Swamp Root Jimmies drummer Naoya Numa behind. Photo by Colin Barey
With Swamp Root Jimmies bassist Keigo Iwami (here playing the pigs!) at the Tokyo Poetry Slam, September 21, 2014
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Playing KORG WaveDrum at Percussion Sound/Shift, Super Deluxe, Tokyo, August 2014. Photos by Bozzo Mori
Playing KORG WaveDrum at Percussion Sound/Shift,
Super Deluxe, Tokyo, August 2014. Photo by Bozzo Mori |
At Club Edge, Roppongi, Tokyo, August 2014
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On 3-string guitar, at Nob in Shibuya, Tokyo, August 2014
Big System, special quartet version, at What the Dickens, Ebisu, Tokyo, August 2014
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On talking drum and pigs, at What the Dickens, Ebisu, Tokyo, 2014 - photos by Joe Zanghi
Joining rock trio Tits Tats and Whiskers for an impromptu rendition of The Letter, at Edge in Roppongi, Tokyo, September 12, 2014
With the Swamp Root Jimmies, at What the Dickens, Tokyo, July 2014 - thanks to Rob Schwartz for the snap.
With keyboardist Morgan Fisher at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 2014. Photo by Michael Holms
Drumming on the "Blues Cruise", that is, a boat sailing down the
Sumida River in Tokyo with Rambling Steve Gardner's band. July, 2014. Photo by Jane Pardinas. |
Playing changgo with some plastic tubes… Tokyo 2012
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Boston, circa 1980. This was a sort of "double band" meeting between my old improvising group Ensemble Garuda (Frank London, trumpet, Tom Hall, sax, Greg Selker, marimba) and Raqib Hassan's SunShip. Raqib is sen here playing bass clarinet.
On drums with Third Person (Steve Lacy, saxophone - Tom Cora, cello) at the original Knitting Factory, W. Houston Street, NYC
Tokyo, 2014
At Super Deluxe, Tokyo, with Kaoru Watanabe, flute
In duo with multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Michio Karimata, Tokyo, May 2014
On drums with Steve Gardner and bassist Hisa Nakase, playing for a boatful of revelers
on the Sumida River, Tokyo, April 2014. Photo by Mike Maksimuk.
on the Sumida River, Tokyo, April 2014. Photo by Mike Maksimuk.
With Datiko Gee on guitar, April 2014, Infinity Books, Tokyo - photo by Patricia McGahan
Playing the Walking Drum, Tokyo 2011 - photo by Marcellus Nealy
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Playing the Dan Moi (Vietnamese jaw harp) at Super Deluxe, Tokyo - photos by Daniel Rosen
Medicine Bone (Ken Shima and Samm Bennett) at Super Deluxe, 2012 - photo by Michael Holmes
At Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 2012 - photo by Michael Holmes
Playing KORG WaveDrum, at What the Dickens, Tokyo, 2012 - photo by Kyoko Obayashi
on KORG WaveDrum, Tokyo 2013 - photo by Matteo Aroldi
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on the "Marron Glace" diddley bow, Tokyo, 2012
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Drumming and singing, Club Edge, Roppongi, Tokyo, 2014 - photo by Kiyoshi Okazaki
Playing the Pigs, Club Edge, Roppongi, Tokyo, 2014 - photo by Julian Peters
Big System (Nii Tete and Samm Bennett) at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 2011
Singing a song with guitarist Datiko Gee, live at LanCul, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, February 2014
On drums, electronics and voice, with Otomo Yoshihide, turntables, etc. And, on bass… ? At Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, March 1996
Photo by Eckhart Derschmidt
Photo by Eckhart Derschmidt
On electro-acoustic mini drum kit with bassist Masahico Shimaji, Naka Meguro, Tokyo, February, 2014 - photo by Sato Richman
solo at What the Dickens, Ebisu, Tokyo, February 2014
photo by Jeffrey Johnson |
at Bar Gari Gari, Ikenoue, Tokyo, January 2014
photo by Joe Zanghi |
Duo with guitarist Datiko Gee, at Drunk Poets See God #12, Bar Gari Gari, Ikenoue, Tokyo. Photo by Colin Barey
Drumming and singing with Rambling Steve Gardner's band (Forest Mitchell Nelson on bass, Rob Moerau on mandolin)
at What the Dickens, Ebisu, Tokyo, 2013
at What the Dickens, Ebisu, Tokyo, 2013
S&H (Habu Hiroshi, percussion) live at Shibuya 7th Floor, Tokyo, 2013
 on the Dan Moi, Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 2010
 playing balafon in a yurt at Nomadomura,
on Awaji Island, Japan, 2011 |
 photo: Kevin McGue On walking drum, at Bright Brown,
Nakano, Tokyo, 2010 |
on drums in duo with multi-instrumentalist Karimata Michio, at Last Waltz, Shibuya, Tokyo, 2013
photo by Karl Lohninger
photo by Karl Lohninger
 on WaveDrum, at a Skist show in Brisbane, Australia, 2006
photo by Bec English  on multi-percussion kit, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979
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Percussion SoundShift, Super Deluxe, Tokyo, February 2013
at Bashamichi Tap Room, Yokohama, 2013
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on talking drum, with Medicine Bone (Ken Shima, Guitar/vocal) at Bar Gari Gari, Ikenoue, Tokyo, 2012
Live radio broadcast from the studios of WFMU, 91.1 FM, in beautiful downtown Jersey City, NJ, November, 2013
Thanks to DJ Kurt Gottschalk for hosting the show, and for the photo
Thanks to DJ Kurt Gottschalk for hosting the show, and for the photo
on electronic percussion (pad-triggered samples) with History of the Last Five Minutes (Hahn Rowe, guitar)
at Festival Beyond Innocence, Kobe, Japan, 1994
at Festival Beyond Innocence, Kobe, Japan, 1994
 solo at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 2011
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 solo, on WaveDrum, at the "Sacred Voices"
Festival, held a a Buddhist temple in Seoul, Korea |
on drums with Kramer, a blurry Han Bennink and Mike Watt, Super Deluxe, Tokyo
 on tuned multi- percussion kit, with Semantics,
at Bim Huis, Amsterdam, 1988 |
 jamming with Jaco Pastorius and unidentified conga player,
at the East Village club "Neither/Nor" on 6th Street (C & D), New York City, circa 1985 |
Playing the jaw harp, with tuba player Takaoka Daysuke, at Yokohama "Blues for Blues" Festival, 2011
on drums with Communists From Outer Space (Tabata Mistsuru and Cal Lyall, guitars) at Bar Isshee, 2012
Photo: Joe Zanghi
on drum, accompanying poet Jeffrey Johnson,
at What the Dickens, Tokyo, May 2013. |
on talking drum with Smoke Benders, Bar Isshee, 2012
 photo: Marcellus Nealey on djembe, CoZmo's Cafe, Shibuya, Tokyo, 2011
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Reading my mini-songs written especially for my photographs, projected live. At PechaKucha Night, Tokyo, December 2013.
I've collected the one-verse songs and their accompanying photographs HERE. (photo by Mark Dytham)
I've collected the one-verse songs and their accompanying photographs HERE. (photo by Mark Dytham)
on drums, with Hisayuki Nakase, bass, and Rambling Steve Gardner, National steel guitar, Mardi Gras Party, 2013
Playing the mouth bow at Shibuya NOB, Tokyo, 2012
with S&H (Habu Hiroshi, percussion) at Ringoya, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, 2013
on drums with Communists From Outer Space (Tabata Mistsuru and Cal Lyall, guitars) at Last Waltz, Shibuya, 2013
Photo: Robert Moreau
Cowboy drummer, Sendai, Japan, 2013.
Guess I have to say it: needs more cowbell. |
outdoor live at "hanami" cherry blossom Spring event, hosted by Coedo Beer, Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, April 2012
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House concert at musician/architect Jeff Greene's home in NYC, November 2013. Photo by Tanaka Yumiko.
Smoke Benders duo (Numa Naoya, drums) with special guest Makigami Koichi - Sengawa JazzArt Festival, 2012
on walking drum with Ghost Steppers at Groover's Paradise, Oimachi, Tokyo, 2011
solo on electroacoustic at Club Lizard, Yokohama, 2012
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at Bar Gari Gari, Ikenoue, Tokyo, 2013 - photo by Joe Zanghi
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on walking drum with Medicine Bone (Ken Shima, guitar and vocal)
with S&H (Habu Hiroshi, percussion) at Crawfish, Akasaka, Tokyo, June 14, 2013
On WaveDrum, in Shibuya, Tokyo, 2012
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at Shibuya NOB, Tokyo, 2012
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On diddley bow, with the Swamp Root Jimmies, December, 2013.
Being painted while singing, by the lovely and very talented Keeda Oikawa. This was during a performance with her and
keyboard player Morgan Fisher at Super Deluxe, Tokyo.
keyboard player Morgan Fisher at Super Deluxe, Tokyo.
Drumming with Third Person (Tom Cora and Umezu Kzutoki) at the Moers Festival, Moers, Germany. 1994
Playing the Dan Moi (jaw harp) at Avondale Brewing Company,
Birmingham, Alabama, November 2013 - photo by Ben Dyar |
Playing diddley bow at Percussion SoundShift,
SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, 2012 |
Playing percussion with Syd Smart (xylophone) Katy Roberts (balafon) and Janet Grice (bassoon)
at a New England Conservatory recital hall, Boston Massachusetts, circa 1978
at a New England Conservatory recital hall, Boston Massachusetts, circa 1978
Playing 3-string guitar with the Metaphors (Marcos Fernandes and Hiroshi Shimizu) at Bar Cane's in Fujisawa, Japan, October 2013
Playing mouth bow at a solo showat What the Dickens, Ebisu, Tokyo, 2012
Skist (with Haruna Ito, percussion and vocal) live at the Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia, 2006