Rick Benjamin (band leader)

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Rick Benjamin is the director and founder of the world renowned Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. He has an active career as a pianist and tuboist as well as an arranger.

He has produced his own CDs and travels around the world as the leader of his orchestra.

Mr. Benjamin was greatly encouraged in his musical career by his grandfather, J. Edward Smith, who played violin, clarinet & piano, among other instruments, throughout his life, and was a musician with the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra, in Monmouth County, NJ, for many years until his death. Mr. Benjamin & his PRO continue to perform regularly in Monmouth County, NJ venues, where both grandfather & grandson lived.