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Benny Green: Teaching Jazz to the Next Generation
by Victor Verney
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 ...
Jazz At The Bistro
By Benny Green
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Ask Me Now performed by Benny Green / Russell Malone - 4:49
2. Tale of the Fingers performed by Benny Green / Russell Malone - 3:01
3. A Bient
Benny Green and Russell Malone: Jazz at The Bistro
by Mike Perciaccante
Russell Malone can play it all -- rock, pop, country, blues, jazz -- you name it. But as anyone who has heard his recording knows, he's most at home (and comfortable) when he's playing jazz. And we as listeners are rewarded with some of the most beautiful sounds, tones and phrasing possible on the guitar. On ...
The Place To Be
By Benny Green
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Nice Pants; Playmate; I Want to Talk About You; Place to Be; I Felt That; Pensativa; One of Another Kind; Which Came First?; Noreen's Nocturne; Concertina; Gravy Waltz; Folks Who Live on the Hill
Benny Green: The Place To Be
by William Grim
Benny Green is one of the most gifted jazz pianists around, and The Place To Be shows off his abilities in a variety of settings. The album starts off with a big band arrangement of “Nice Pants” which at times sounds like it’s based on the changes of “Critic’s Choice,” a tune that was a staple ...
Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey
by C. Andrew Hovan
While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...
Green's Blues
By Benny Green
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: I've Heard That Song Before; I Wish You Love; Someone To Watch Over Me; You Make Me Feel So Young; Just You Just Me; Green's Blues; Green Eyes; Misty; Nice Work If You Can Get It; Ain't Misbehavin'; It Don't Mean A Thing; I Got It Bad
Meet Duane Eubanks
by AAJ Staff
Duane Eubanks is the youngest practicing member of yet another one of jazz's famous families, the Eubanks. In fact, the Eubanks family's immersion in music began with Duane's maternal grandmother, who passed on the tradition to Duane's mother, Vera, and to Duane's uncles, Ray and Tommy Bryant. Vera still performs in Philadelphia, and one ...
Benny Green: Green's Blues
by Bill Donaldson
Benny Green's talent is such that he can adapt to any situation, as proven by the ultimate testing grounds of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Betty Carter's group, not to mention Ray Brown's trio--all of which Green joined. As the aggressive hard bop pianist or the unpredictable Carter's accompanist who slips from one thought to the ...
