Daryl Bennett (musician)

Daryl Bennett
Occupation(s)	Composer, film producer, record producer, session musician
Instruments	Drums, saxophone
Years active	1970s –present
Associated acts	Powder Blues Band, The Philippe Lapointe Group, Eli Bennett Quartet, Jim Guttridge

Daryl Bennett is a musician and film score composer who's music has been heard on films such as Voyage of the Unicorn, Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled, Entrance, and television shows such as The Outer Limits, and Higher Ground. As a drummer, one of the artists he has recorded with is Long John Baldry on his It Still Ain't Easy album. He is the father of Eli Bennett, an award winning jazz saxophonist.

He introduced his son Eli to music when Eli was twelve years old. Eli, who was the first born son used to make his bed in his father's studio. His son received the CBC Galaxie Award at the National Jazz Awards in Toronto around 2009.

One of his earliest projects in soundtrack work was in the Roger Larry directed film Knocking on Heaven's Door which was released around 1994. He had multiple roles in the 2006 horror film. One as an actor in The Entrance, playing the Priest. He was also associate producer, film editor, and music composer.

He worked as composer and editor on the 2013 documentary film The Exhibition with Damon Vignale, and Miho Yamamoto. It received the Michael Sullivan Frontline Award for Journalism in a Documentary Film at the 2014 Salem Film Festival. For his work on The Exhibition, he received the Seattle Composers Alliance award as 2014 Winner of the Best Original Score. Along with son Eli, he provided the music for the film Human Harvest which features Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour.

One of the bands he was a member of was The Philippe Lapointe Group which recorded the album, Natural Selection, released in 1987. Another group he was in was the Powder Blues Band which was formed in the late 1970s. As of 2011, he was still a member of the group.

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