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Born in New York in 1963, Benny Green grew up in Berkeley, California, and began classical piano studies at the age of seven. Influenced by his father, a tenor saxophonist, his attention soon turned to jazz: “I began trying to improvise on the piano, imitating the records I’d been hearing from my father’s collection, which included a lot ...
Benny Green married Antoinette Kanal in 1962, and had three sons and one daughter. One son, Dominic Green, is a guitarist who has published a book about his father; Benny Green Words and Music (2003). Another, Leo Green, has followed in his father's footsteps as a highly regarded saxophonist and, more recently, Radio 2 broadcaster.
10 de oct. de 2014 · Benny Green On Piano Jazz. October 10, 2014 11:15 AM ET. Benny Green In The Studio. ... Hard bop pianist Benny Green was mentored by Walter Bishop Jr. and has appeared on more than 100 recordings, ...
1 de ago. de 2023 · Benny Green’s 22nd album, Solo (Sunnyside), dropped in May, a month after his 60th birthday.The work documents the master pianist in transition. Recorded over two days last December, it’s a 40-minute recital comprising two Green originals and choice cuts of tunes by pianists Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, Horace Silver, Bobby Timmons, McCoy Tyner, Cedar ...
An exciting and hard-swinging pianist in the Bud Powell mold, Benny Green ranks alongside Mulgrew Miller and Donald Brown as one of a number of talented hard-bop keyboard stars to have graduated from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers training ground. During America’s hard-bop revival of the ‘80s, Green established his own distinctive voice as ...
Benny Green possesses the history of jazz at his fingertips. Combine mastery of keyboard technique with decades of real world experience playing with no one less than the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and it's no wonder Green has been hailed as perhaps the most exciting, hard-swinging, hard-bop, pianist to ever emerge from Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
