Goldberg, Ben

Go Home

Label: Bag Country: USA

"Clarinetist / Composer Ben Goldberg announces the debut recording by Go Home, the first release on his new label, BAG Production Records. Go Home features ten of Ben's compositions. He is joined by Charlie Hunter on guitar, Scott Amendola on drums, and Ron Miles on cornet.

Ben says: Charlie, Scott, and I had been talking for a few years about recording together, and saw an opportunity when Scott and I would be at the Jazz Standard in New York for a week in April 2008. Ron Miles was in town with Bill Frisell, and he joined us for two days at the Bunker studio in Williamsburg. I provided the tunes and a lovely time was had by all. The name Go Home came to me because the sound of the group is so direct and honest that for me it goes back to when I was little and music hit me so hard. Also, in Get Back on Let It Be, which I listened to a lot back then, I believe Paul says "go home."

This CD combines the studio session with live tracks from the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, California from February 2009. The recording captures the unique spirit of the group, with inspired performances, unstoppable grooves, and a beautiful sound throughout, thanks to Mark Orton's mix.

Ben Goldberg, whom John Zorn has called "one of the greatest clarinetists I have ever heard," grew up in Denver, Colorado, and received degrees from the University of California and Mills College. He studied with Rosario Mazzeo, Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano. Ben's group New Klezmer Trio "kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music." (San Francisco Chronicle). In addition to Go Home and the Ben Goldberg Quintet, he performs with Tin Hat; plays monk; Myra Melford's Be Bread; Nels Cline's New Monastery; and Baal, a quartet with Jamie Saft, Greg Cohen, and Kenny Wollesen that plays John Zorn's Masada Book Two."-Bag Productions