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Benny Bennet

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Jazz

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Latin

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1922

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1946 to Present...

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Benny Bennet et son Orchester de Musique Latine-Américaine

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Benny Bennet (also Benny Bennet, born 1922 in Port-d'Espagne, Venezuela) was an American jazz and entertainment musician ( percussion , orchestra conducting), who worked mostly in France. Bennett moved with his family to the United States at the age of two. At the age of twelve he had lessons at the Manhattan School of Music in percussion and drums. His first appearances were in the environment of the early bebop musicians at Club Minton's Playhouse. Under the influence of his first wife Cathalina, a Cuban dancer, he became interested in Latin American music. After the war, he lived in Paris, where he first played at jam sessions with jazz musicians such as Harry Cooper, Robert Mavounzy , Frank Goudie and Charlie Lewis. In 1947 he belonged to the Be Bop Minstrels by Hubert Fol, André Persiany and Emmanuel Soudieux; in similar occupation he recorded with Robert Mavounzy & His Orchestra . In 1951/52 he played with Don Byas and His Rhythm (inter alia, with Maurice Vander and Jean -Pierre Sasson), 1953 with Clifford Brown, Henri Renaud and Pierre Michelot (Clifford Brown in Paris) and 1960 still with André Réwéliotty, before he relocated to dance and entertainment music and in Paris with his own bands (Benny Bennet et son Orchester de Musique Latine-Américaine). In the 1960s, he presented a series of singles, EPs and LPs like Festical a Cuba - Cha Cha Cha (Disques Vogue). In the field of jazz he was involved from 1946 to 1961 in 17 recording sessions.