Samm Bennett

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Samm Bennett (b. Birmingham, Alabama, 1957), is an American singer/songwriter and percussionist.

As a singer and songwriter he has released three albums (all on the Knitting Factory label, and for the time being out of print): 1991's Life of Crime", 1993's The Big Off and 1995's History of the Last 5 Minutes. He was a founding member (along with the late Tom Cora, cello) of the free improvisation group Third Person, and was a founding member (along with Hahn Rowe, Yuval Gabay and Kumiko Kimoto) of the New York group Bosho. He was also a part of the trio Semantics, which explored complex overlapping rhythms with a jazz instrumentation.

More recently his work with his duo project Skist (with vocalist Haruna Ito) has been released on Japan's POLARITY label: 2002's Ellipsis and 2006's Taking Something Somewhere.

He has also recorded or performed with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, Kazutoki Umezu, and many others,

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