Benjamin Duboc

Benjamin Duboc is a French double bassist, improviser and composer, born in 1969. He trained at the conservatory in piano and clarinet before turning to the bass, which he studied with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Bernard Cazauran. He works in free improvisation and free jazz, writes electroacoustic music, and is known for close, low-register work on the instrument, heard on the triple album Primare Cantus (Ayler Records, 2011), which opens with a long solo piece.