Bennett Paster
Piano – SJW Jazz Camp Online, Jazz Institute Online
or over 30 years, pianist Bennett Paster has been a fixture on the faculty at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, where he brings his vast experience as a composer, arranger, performer, and educator available to all SJW jazz campers. In New York City, Bennett is very busy as a keyboardist, arranger, composer, bandleader, producer, recording and mixing engineer, and as the owner of his own studio.
Bennett has performed with a wide array of great jazz artists, including Wallace Roney, Keb’ Mo’, Robben Ford, Kurt Elling, Bill Stewart, Peter Erskine, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Yosvany Terry, and Curtis Stigers. He has also performed with musical theater and cabaret stars Christine Ebersole, Ann Hampton Calloway, and Michael Cerveris. He has performed original music at clubs, concerts, and festivals in the United States, the Caribbean, South and Central America, Central and South Asia, and throughout Europe.
Fluent in a variety of different styles and musical idioms, and equally talented on piano, organ, and electric keyboards, Paster has released eight recordings as a leader or co-leader. His newest funky jazz album Indivisible (2019) features ten originals, each exploring a different rhythmic feel, but unified by a singular focus on groove. He currently gigs regularly around NYC and works as a producer and engineer at his studio, Benny’s Wash & Dry, in Brooklyn, NY.

Raffi Garabedian

Christopher Sullivan

Jimmy Kraft

Stevie Greenwell

Lemar Guillary

Kushal Talele

Markus Howell

Tyler Kaneshiro

Adi Meyerson

Valerie Troutt

Naomi Siegel

Dave Robaire

Natalie Cressman

Paul Cornish

Cory Cox

Maya Kronfeld

Daniel Rotem

Mara Fox

Caroline Davis

Sandy Cressman

Michael Mitchell

Noah Garabedian

Darren Johnston

Sam Reider

Dr. David Hart

Mike Galisatus

Steven Lugerner

Malachi Whitson

Carmen Staaf

Caili O’Doherty

Patrick Wolff

John Sturino

Kristen Strom

Peter Stoltzman

Andrew Speight

Lynn Speakman

Scott Sorkin

Bennett Paster

Victor Lin

Bennett Roth-Newell

Steve Blum

Taylor Eigsti

Paul Cornish

Maya Kronfeld

Javier Santiago

Dan Zemelman

Joshua White

Sam Reider

Carmen Staaf

Richard Sears

Caili O’Doherty

Peter Stoltzman
