M. Alex Ramirez

Zach Green: Chatterbox

by Jack Bowers
August 6, 2023

On Chatterbox, young Ohio-born, New York-based composer/arranger Zach Green has written most of the music, arranged all of it, and chosen a well-modulated sextet to bring it to life. The term “young" certainly applies to Green, a graduate of Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music who also sings and plays guitar and percussion (but not here) and is yet several years shy of his thirtieth birthday--which hasn't stopped him from forming an eleven-piece ensemble, Zach Green's Elevention, or co-founding the ...