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Benny Green was born in New York in 1963 but was raised in Berkeley, California. He began classical piano studies at the age of seven. In 1993 Oscar Peterson chose Benny as the first recipient of the City of Toronto's Glen Gould International Protégé Prize in Music. Check our available Benny Green concert ticket inventory and get your tickets here at ConcertBank now. Sign up for an email alert to be notified the moment we have tickets!


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Jazz pianist and composer Benny Green claims ownership to seemingly endless musical credentials and recognitions. A classically trained pianist from his youth, Green eventually became infatuated with jazz, thanks to the influence of his father, a saxophonist. Green has performed and recorded with legendary jazz musicians, including Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Freddie Hubbard, and Ray Brown...
- www.popmatters.com
Pianist Benny Green explains in the notes accompanying his new album that it's his first trio recording as a leader in 10 years. "I just wasn't motivated to have a band," he writes, and it's tempting to think he spent the time sulking, Achilles-like, because so many young people "know nothing of what jazz is. Who can blame them for believing it's a face on a magazine cover or anything employing a horn or improvisation...
- jazztimes.com
Pianist Benny Green has not been in the studio leading a recording date since his collaboration with Russell Malone, Bluebird (Telarc, 2004)...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
Mainstream pianist Benny Green,a protege of Oscar Peterson, doesn't try to overwhelm you with pyrotechnics,at least on this CD. However, he does have the chops (or hands!) and he puts them to good use. Those big block chords and his mastery of stride and swing spice up his solo cuts which include "Learning the Blues,"Duke's "Love You Madly"and Wayne Shorter's poignant tribute to Prez,"Lester Left Town." In putting together a trio,Green hit the jackpot...
- www.jazzreview.com
After exhibiting great potential as a young pianist during his teens on the San Francisco jazz scene, Benny Green, long regarded as one of the most promising wunderkinds of jazz piano, spent his twenties serving apprenticeships with a virtual pantheon of musical giants. During his thirties, Green fulfilled his early promise, making the transition from sideman to a headline act in his own right...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
Kaleidoscope, which marks the eighth recording of Benny Green as a leader, is not a quantum leap into the throes of the avant garde that the Ornette-ish title may suggest. Green's knack for infectious blues-inflected compositions and joyous swing is still intact...
- www.jazztimes.com
Heir apparent to Oscar Peterson, Benny Green has proven his staying power as a bop-flavored pianist, having paid his dues with Betty Carter, Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey and Ray Brown. Now just 36, his 10th album as a leader marks his debut for Telarc and he has chosen sidemen-guitarist Russell Malone and bassist Christian McBride-carefully. Green has also chosen to relax. Naturally is a laid-back collection of elegant as opposed to hard-edged jazz...
- www.jazztimes.com
In case anyone failed to notice, 1999 was the 60th anniversary of Blue Note Records; it was also pianist Benny Green's tenth year with the label. His current release is something of a celebration of these coincident events: label head Bruce Lundvall suggested to Green that he put together a set of tunes from Blue Note's illustrious history...
- www.jazztimes.com
In this program of unaccompanied piano solos, Benny Green often sounds as if he could be holding forth at a Harlem rent party in the 1930s or appearing on radio's "Piano Playhouse" in the 1940s. Then he'll lay in a chord sequence so wryly hip and modern, so personal, that it could only be Benny Green. The repertoire is standards, except for his original title tune...
- www.jazztimes.com
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