Production Bios

Joe Bennett

Vice President for Operations, Global Strateqy, and Innovation

Joe Bennett is a musicologist, writer, and researcher specializing in the analysis of popular music

and songwriting. He has written more than 30 books, including transcription, teaching and reference
works, as well as more than 300 articles for Total Guitar magazine, Future Music, Tidal, and others,
relating to classic recordings, guitar techniques, and songwriting. His Rockschool compositions

for music education are performed by students all over the world. Bennet is a member of PRS for
Music, a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a peer reviewer for IASPM
(International Association for the Study of Popular Music), Art of Record Production, and Bloomsbury
Publishing. As an academic, his primary areas of research are the psychology of songwriting,

and similarity thresholds in popular songs. His doctoral study was entitled Constraint, Creativity,
Copyright and Collaboration in Popular Songwriting Teams and it provided the world’s first systematic
investigation into collaborative songwriters’ creative processes. As a forensic musicologist, Bennett
assists songwriters, law professionals, and music publishers in investigating music plagiarism and
copyright infringement. Media interviews include NPR, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek,
Forbes, BBC, M1V, The Daily Telegraph, Discovery Channel, and The Guardian. He is listed on the Music
Publishers’ Association’s Register of Expert Witness Musicologists and the American Musicological
Society's database of forensic musicologists. Prior to coming to Boston, he was the dean of music and
performing arts, and professor of popular music at Bath Spa University in Bath, England. He blogs
about popular music, songwriting, and music copyright at joebennett.net.

Vox One

Special Guest

Vox One began singing together as students at Berklee College of Music. Tom Baskett (bass), Paul
Pampinella (baritone), Paul Stiller (tenor/vocal drums), Yumiko Matsuoka (alto), and Jodi Jenkins-
Ainsworth (soprano, who replaced the original high voice of Paula Cole) all now serve together

on Berklee's faculty. Revered and influential as an early pioneer of modern a cappella, Vox One
specializes in lush close-harmony voicings, with complex yet tasteful reharmonizations. Their published
arrangements are assigned by music educators, and performed by fans worldwide. Vox One's DNA is
jazz harmony, but they regularly stretch out into elements of blues, folk, R&B, funk, and gospel. With
this unique "jazz-based everything” stylistic approach, Vox One has toured the U.S. and internationally,
opening along the way for Ray Charles, Chicago, the Count Basie Orchestra, and the Woody Herman
Orchestra, among others. The group has garnered several awards with the release of their five albums,
among them Album of the Year, Best Jazz Song, and Best R&B Song, by CASA (The Contemporary A
Cappella Society). Said CASA of their debut album: “Creative arrangements and soulful spark...fabulous
lead vocalists, and exquisite blend, a great vocal percussion sound, and lots of class.” The San Francisco
Examiner called the group "most adventurous and distinctive,” and Boston Magazine quipped,

“This jazz quintet puts all kinds of throat sounds to such funky good use that listeners break into
applause and-better-feel like dancing.” Vox One's upcoming release of holiday music is currently

in pre-production.