Benjamin "About The Benjamin"
The Kokoro Group/About The Benjamin:
Production, Engineering, Mixing
Guitars, Round and Squareneck Dobro, Mandolin, Bass, Keyboards,
Arranging and Composition, Sequencing and Drum Programming,
Backing Vocals, ADR, Sound Design
Studio Training and Engineering Experience:
Record Plant LA (w/Gary Kellgren, Lee Keifer, Al Kooper, Lee DeCarlo, Jack Douglas), Sound City (w/Keith Olsen), LA, Westlake Audio LA, Devonshire LA, Clearlake Audio Burbank, Ocean Entertainment Burbank, Studio City Recorders LA, Criteria Miami (Mack Emmerman, Ron and Howie Alpert), Studio 70 Tampa, Barefoot Studios LA and (currently) Nashville
Guitar/Multi-Instrumentalist Studio, Touring, Performing Musician
The entertainment industry. Having attended Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, Benjamin has an extensive compositional background and experience in Big Band Arranging, Television, and Film Scoring.
1967 – 2024 (57 years) worldwide
BROUGHT TO YOU BY
A true creative dream come true for this "new old guy" who's been in the game for over 54 years, my multi-volume audio biopic, THE BOOK OF BENJAMIN, is a heartfelt, joy-filled chronicle of my career as a prolific behind-the-scene force to contemporary music –
I want to share with you how blessed I feel to have been part of history. During this time, these "folks that I'm brought to you by "…I got to know and learned invaluable musical skills and life lessons from the proverbial "who's who" of classic rock, R&B, and jazz.
As you listen to The Book of Benjamin, time travel along to sessions and hang's, playing, recording, jamming, working with the who's who... Spirit, Wizard, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Freddie King, Buddy Miles, Stevie Wonder, Three Dog Night, Duane/Gregg and the Allman Brothers, BB King, Johnny Winter, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, George Russell Composer, Chambers Brothers, Dr. John, John Lennon, Bad Company, Al Kooper, Max Middleton, Billy Preston, Robert Plant, "The Steve Lukather," Keith Olsen, Jack Douglas, Andy Johns, Lee DeCarlo, Lee Keifer, Bonnie Bramlett, Mike Finnigan, Bekka Bramlett, Stephen Stills, Steve Marriott, Mickey Finn, and my main two guys, Jimi Hendrix and George Harrison.
But most of all, having the opportunity to be around these incredible musicians, these incredible humans, hanging out and getting to know them, being given the privilege to absorb their talent and the gift of working with them... mind-boggling.
