Results for "Bunky Green"

Bunky Green

Born: April 23, 1933

Performer, educator, composer, arranger, lecturer, and music education consultant, Professor Green has 14 albums released in his name on vintage labels such as Chess, Exodus, Cadet, and Vanguard. As an international performer, educator, and lecturer, his European tours have taken him to Poland, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Africa.

Professor Green received film credit for his background solo work in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, featuring Danny Glover and Esther Rolle. He is Past President and permanent chair of the Past Presidents Council of the world's largest jazz education organization, the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE). Professor Green received a rare five star rating from Downbeat Magazine for his album Healing the Pain. Along with Gary Burton, Gerald Wilson, Jackie McLean, and Rufus Reid, he was cited in a 1995 DownBeat Magazine article recognizing the nation's leading jazz educators who are also respected players.

Kelly Green: Taking Care of the Music

by R.J. DeLuke
September 28, 2026

Singer/pianist Kelly Green works in a field that can be difficult to negotiate: jazz. In the United States, its popularity doesn't reach that of pop music in all its forms or rock music. But it is always there as a thriving art form. For the keepers of the flame at all levels of talent, ...

Sam Norris: Wood/Gold - Solo Saxophone Volume 1

by Jack Kenny
June 23, 2026

This is music where you need to embrace the journey, not the destination: The music might not have a clear beginning, middle, and end in the traditional sense; enjoying the moment-to-moment unfolding of sounds and ideas is the purpose. Sometimes the act of listening to a saxophone is rewarded because the musician wants to ...

Bunky Green, We'll Miss You

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 1, 2025

A tribute to the late Bunky Green through his music and that of the musicians he has inspired. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Bunky Green “What I Can Do" Playin' For Keeps (Cadet) 0:16 Host talks 5:53 Steve Coleman, Dave Holland “Little ...

My Conversation with Steve Coleman

by AAJ Staff
August 8, 2024

This article first appeared at All About Jazz in July 1999. The pressure to succeed in music is so heavy, the monkey on artists' backs must feel like King Kong. With so many fearing the guillotine of inconsequentiality, it is no wonder artists feel the inherent need to dress in see-through chain mail to ...

A Summer night of Soul Jazz, Hard Bop and Funk

by David Brown
July 25, 2023

It's hot. Its summer. Let's ease into the night with some hard bop & soul jazz from the classic era--Lee Morgan, Ray Bryant, Bunky Green, Leo Wright and the Freedom Sounds. We'll then electrify the sounds as we move into the '70s with Eddie Harris, Bobbi Humphrey, Sun Ra and Parliament. Eventually we'll end up in ...

From Bacharach to Earscratcher with a Serving of Soul Jazz In Between

by David Brown
February 14, 2023

This week, we “Say a Little Prayer" for Burt Bacharach (RIP) with songs performed by Cécile McLorin Salvant, Anthony Braxton and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. A soulful set of Sonny Stitt leads us into a birthday shout out to band leader Chick Webb. Things get spicy with The Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook Vols 1-3 featuring Philly's Queen ...

Mingus Centennial: The Composer + new releases

by David Brown
April 26, 2022

Celebrating the centennial of the birth of composer, bandleader and bassist Charles Mingus. We'll feature Mingus compositions as performed by Henry Threadgill, Chuck D, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Harry Skoler, Yoko Miwa, Joe Henderson, Anthony Braxton and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Then we'll spin Mingus last major work, Cumbia Jazz & Fusion. We'll start and end the ...

Just in Bin: Delvon Lamarr, Irene Jalenti, Tony Malaby, Omri Ziegele, Marta Sanchez, and more

by David Brown
March 1, 2022

This week, recent releases, acquisitions and record store finds. Soul sounds from Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Sonny Stitt and Bunky Green, new releases from Tony Malaby, Rob Mazurek and Immanuel Wilkins, classics from Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson and the John Coltrane Trio, and more. Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... ...

Ghosts In The Machine, Part 3: Jazz Musicians And Popular Music

by Kurt Ellenberger
February 23, 2021

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Part 3: The GhostsIn a recent essay in Commentary, Terry Teachout, arts and culture critic for the Wall Street Journal, makes an argument for the date on which the jazz era officially ended and the rock/pop era began--May 9, ...