BOP STOP has partnered with more than a dozen Midwest venues to form the Midwest Jazz Collective. Together, the MJC is presenting a collaboratively routed tour featuring the Benny Benack III Quartet!

Benny last played BOP STOP in 2017, though he was supposed to return in June of 2020 before the pandemic canceled most of our shows that year. We are excited to have him back for this special performance!

Featuring:

• Benny Benack III (trumpet and vocals)
• Tyler Henderson (piano)
• Caleb Tobocman (bass)
• Charles Goold (drums)

Tickets for tonight are $25 each in advance, $30 day of show. This event will not be live-streamed.

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The Midwest Jazz Collective is a consortium of more than a dozen Jazz clubs across Illinois, Wisconsin,Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. They have aligned with a shared passion for the preservation and advancement of the great American art form that is Jazz. Together they announce their first collaboratively routed tour featuring vocalist and trumpeter Benny Benack III. The tour includes more than a dozen club concerts and a half-dozen educational workshops at regional universities.

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Benny Benack III is a fiery trumpet player and singer performing standards and his own astute compositionswith a thrilling sense of showmanship.

A graduate of TheManhattan Schoolof Music,Benny won the 2011 Carmine Caruso Trumpet Competition andwas a 2014 finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.

Benack is a regular headliner at New York City’s most famed venues including Birdland, Mezzrow, The Django,Smalls Jazz Club, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.He’sperformed widely as a frontman for Postmodern Jukebox andworked with countless jazz artistsincludingUlysses Owens Jr.,Christian McBride,Aaron Johnson,AnnHampton-CallowayandJoey DeFrancesco.

Benny tours extensively in the United States and around the World playing celebrated clubs and festivals. He’splayed on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" in the Late Show House Band and was the house-trumpetplayer forNBC's summervariety show, "Maya & Marty.”

In 2020, Benny releasedA Lot of Livin’to Dofeaturing bassist Christian McBride, drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr.,and Takeshi Ohbayashi on piano. He released his third studio album,Third Time's the Charm,in 2023 to ravereviews. The album features stars such as Peter Bernstein, Emmet Cohen, Bria Skonberg,Chad Lefkowitz-Brown,and more.

Benny is a sought-after educator, conducting masterclasses around the world, including the New York YouthSymphony andJazz at Lincoln Center’s “Jazz for Young People” program.

“A trumpeter, vocalist, writer and arranger with a swaggering soul and the chops to back up the panache.”—All About Jazz

“The vocalizing trumpeter is overloaded with talent, charm, and star quality.”—Broadway World

“Benny has an old soul, a quick mind and a big heart, and his music reflects both his love for the jazz tradition and his ear for the modern sound.”—JAZZIZ