Duane Benjamin
Lecturer, Global Jazz Studies

Trombone

Duane Benjamin is an accomplished performer, composer, orchestrator and arranger. For over thirty years he has made a successful living playing trombone, electric bass, and arranging “clean, easy to read charts” for industry legends and everyday musicians alike.

Benjamin has performed and recorded with jazz greats like the Count Basie Orchestra, Stanley Clark, The Gerald Wilson Orchestra and The Clayton–Hamilton Orchestra, not to mention contemporary legends like Justin Timberlake, Michael Jackson, Joss Stone, Diana Ross, Earth Wind and Fire, Jamiroquai, Gladys Knight, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Four Tops, rock guitarist Steve Vai, Kirk Franklin and many more. As an orchestrator, his work has also been featured on top-rated television shows such as American Idol and the Voice.

Duane Benjamin Collaborates With BTS for YouTube Livestream Hit “Proof”
Duane Benajmin orchestrated and co-produced his latest project, also hiring live musicians and directing them during a live video shoot. The project happened to be “Proof” by K-Pop super band BTS.
UCLA Global Jazz Ensemble Performs at Mammoth JazzFest
Mammoth JazzFest’s stated mission includes “refreshing, renewing and reinventing jazz.” It’s fitting, then, that this year the festival invited the UCLA Global Jazz Ensemble, a group of six talented jazz
Hitomi Oba
Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, Lecturer
Steven Loza
Director of the UCLA Center for Latino Arts; Professor and Chair of Global Jazz Studies
Alison Deane
Associate Adjunct Professor
Ruth Price
Adjunct Assoc. Professor
Arturo O’Farrill
Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion; Professor
Roberto Miranda
Adjunct Assoc. Professor

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