Ben Black Quartet Concert at Fountainhead Gallery – Seattle, WA

The Ben Black Quartet will present a transformative concert of spirituals, jazz standards, and original works, inspiring unity, love, freedom, and truth, and illuminating a path forward during challenging times.

Ben Black – Vocals

Josh Rawlings– Piano

Geoff Harper – Bass

Will Lone – Drums

Ben Black has been a performer on the Seattle jazz scene since 1985, and spent two years as a music student at Cornish College. His career also spans new opera-theatre, cabaret and African drumming and dance. He studied jazz improvisation for a number of years with pioneer jazz vocalist, Jay Clayton. Ben’s first album on Origin Records, “Remembered Faces/Private Places”, was released in 2001. Previous to the Origin label, he released “In a Mellow Tone”, on MNOP Records, in 1996. He was a featured guest soloist on the album,“Psyche”, by the award winning Fischer ensemble, in 2011, on the 16 Visions label.

*This concert is a ticketed event and will begin promptly at 5pm and last until roughly 7pm, with a brief intermission. Please plan to arrive 15 minutes early for check in and seating.

**Please purchase tickets in advance or have exact cash at the door(if NOT sold out). Be aware concerts can and often do sell out.

***No children under 6 years old. Ages 6-12 are free. Please notify us if you will be bringing children without tickets so we can reserve seats for them, otherwise there might not be enough seating for everyone.

Ben Black may be the most androgynous voice you will ever hear… He joins the great singer Caetano Veloso in being willing to risk using his full vocal range without filtering it through gender-appropriate sounds. Ben shows that the heart, the soul, and the kundalini energy have no sexual orientation and no gender identity; he has a vocal sound that authentically reverberates in all ears without a definition of either/or.

– Jim Fouratt, for “Listen Up”