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Burton Greene w/ Mark Dresser: Peace Beyond Conflict

by Derek Taylor
August 1, 2002

Burton Greene ranks as one of the seasoned survivors in creative improvised music. Like a handful of his ESP peers he’s still at it after all these years, plugging away at his craft and creating chameleonic music along the way. A relatively recent development in winding artistic path is his fertile association with CIMP. Throptics, his earlier trio record for the label, suggested a solid start. This new offering picks up the baton running and further expands on its predecessor’s ...

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Burton Greene Trio: Throptics

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2000

A key ingredient in creative improvised music is willingness on the part of the musician to embrace experimentation. Improvisation by nature demands that the improviser be receptive to new and spontaneous creation. Burton Greene has exemplified this fundamental facet of the improvisers’ credo throughout his nearly four decades in jazz. At times his experiments have resulted in fizzling failures. Such is the risk of working in the ‘without a net’ world of improvised music; everyone has their bad days. But ...