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Benet McLean is a British jazz violin and piano virtuoso and singer.

Life

Benet was regarded as a child prodigy and attended the Purcell School for Young Musicians on a scholarship. He was mentored by Yehudi Menuhin.

He has performed at the London Jazz Festival and has collaborated with Partikel, Nightmares on Wax, Laura Mvula and Mahalia, Andy Davies, Benjamin Croft, Omar, Julian Joseph, Sir Simon Rattle, Dave O’Higgins, TY, Steve Williamson, Jean Toussaint, Tommy Smith, Cleveland Watkiss, Yellow Station Blue, Phillip Bent, Orphy Robinson, Kevin Haynes, Roachford, Maxi Jazz (Faithless) and Loose Tubes.

Benet also teaches and is a professor of jazz violin at the London School of Musical Theatre (LPMAM).

References

1. https://estastrings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Vol-43_2-arco-Summer-2017.pdf
2. "Benet McLean Band & Friends". Time Out London.
3. "Benet McLean – Sussex Jazz Magazine".
4. "Jazz Goes To Leeds: Interview with Benet Mclean". March 9, 2014.
5. "Benet McLean Quintet". EFG London Jazz Festival.
6. "Interview: Julian Joseph OBE". www.prsformusic.com.
7. "Our Guest Soloists". April 6, 2015.
8. "Benet McLean Quintet – Theatre at the Tabard". tabard.org.uk.
9. Fordham, John (June 24, 2010). "Jean Toussaint: Live in Paris and London" – via The Guardian.
10. https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/cleveland-watkissbenet-mclean/
11. Review, Alt A. (June 5, 2020). "KEVIN HAYNES: Alto Saxophonist Percussionist/ African Folklore Singer releases Ajo Se Po – third studio Album". Alt A Review.
12. "Benet McLean unleashes The Bopped And The Bopless at 606 Club". Jazzwise.
13. "Faculty Jazz&Rythm - LPMAM". September 22, 2020.

External links

• Benet McLean artist web page
• Guardian review
• YouTube channel

• British jazz pianists
• British jazz violinists
• British male singers
• Living people