David Benoit

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David Benoit, (born May 9, 1953) is an American jazz fusion / contemporary jazz pianist, composer and producer, who is from Los Angeles, California. He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards.

His debut album Freedom at Midnight was his biggest seller and most popular album. Benoit also says that it was his favorite album to produce, because it was when “everything came together,” as he stated in an interview on smoothviews.com.

Out of respect for one of his main influencers, Bill Evans, he dedicated his 1992 album Letter to Evan to him.

Many of his songs employed a string section, most notably on his American Landscape and Orchestral Stories albums in 1997 and 2005, respectively. He has said that it is his dream to release a symphonic album.

In 2000, after the death of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, he released a memorial album entitled Here’s To You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years. Collaborators included the chorus group Take 6, guitarist Mark Antoine and trumpeter Chris Botti. He also did the music for “Peanuts” in the later specials.

He is a close friend of The Rippingtons’ guitarist and lead Russ Freeman, and they often appeared on each other’s albums. They also released collaborative efforts The Benoit/Freeman Project and The Benoit/Freeman Project 2.

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10	Charlie Brown Theme full track	106
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Hayzi22 wrote:
10 hours ago

David Benoit is my favorite.

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Abuelailsa wrote:
November 2009

Fabuloso, romantico, relajante,,,mmmmmmm delicioso, me fascina..

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st0ppal wrote:
October 2009

love your music, are you planning on comming to europe/austria any time soon?

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Ruminator wrote:
September 2009

I own several of Benoit's recordings and they are just the thing to put on while I'm working on something that needs concentration or when I just want to listen to some smooth music. Thanks, David.

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jarobe4 wrote:
April 2009

Muy Buen Pianista

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drummasterboyzz wrote:
April 2009

DAVIID IS AN AWESOME JAZZ PIANIST,CONTINUE YOUR LEGACY

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kurtgarcia wrote:
March 2009

Cool.

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dougfather wrote:
March 2009

nice version of a great song

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TippinMyStuff wrote:
March 2009

me likey

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gr8pixel wrote:
February 2009

smoooooooooooooooooooooth... yeeyyyyyyy...

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philkentbass wrote:
January 2009

Brilliant. Davids beautiful sparkling piano. - Although, I must say I prefer the original version of this, without the sax, and played at a slightly slower tempo, which David released as a single, but hey, this is great and I could listen to it a thousand times!!

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mol4un wrote:
November 2008

Yes, very nice and smooth and jazzy.

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Cannon49 wrote:
November 2008

i love his music its nice and smooth also listen to when i'm reading some of my romance books.

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MooreCurto wrote:
August 2008

Why don’t you try more here http://mp3aim.com/Search/?q=David+Benoit

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Josh-H wrote:
July 2008

The music to snoopy (L)

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serpg wrote:
April 2008

Was this music put together in a dream and handed over to him when he woke up? Amazing stuff!!

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due_friday wrote:
March 2008

great stuff. makes every dinner deluxe :)

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meinhold wrote:
February 2008

This guy is amazing.

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bmmt wrote:
November 2007

Very-very sweet music:-)

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dabigkid wrote:
December 2006

The instant I get my hands on an iTunes card I'm buying Full Circle...it sounds so amazing!

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