Ben Haugland Quintet

For Jazz Lovers, A Rare Santa Fe Performance

Ben Haugland is an award-winning jazz pianist, composer, and educator whose career reflects a distinguished record of achievement. Haugland has played with jazz artists including Randy Brecker, Chris Potter, Donny Mccaslin, Bob Mintzer, Curtis Fuller, and Billy Hart.

Stephen Jones is the Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Professor at Texas Tech University. He has played with artists including Dave Brubeck, Conti Candoli, Maynard Ferguson, Slide Hampton, and Tom Harrell.

Haugland, Anderson, and Smith find a number of ways to spur the band while sharing the same sonic space. Haugland is a mature, substantive improviser whose bright, poetic comping during the heads and amidst the soloists is rhythmically incisive as well as utterly sympathetic to each of the songs. He always gives the impression that his mindset and creative impulses encompass the song and the goings on of the bass…