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Burton Greene: Live at Grasland

Read "Live at Grasland" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
May 15, 2004

You would not be faulted for raising an eyebrow at the appearance of a Burton Greene solo record. It is not without precedent, of course, for 1998’s Shades of Greene (Cadence Jazz) and It’s All One (Horo, 1975) set a worthy course. Nevertheless, Greene’s music has been fruitfully explored in ensemble recordings, from the classic open-communications ...

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Burton Greene: Calistrophy

Read "Calistrophy" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
March 11, 2003

The latest offering from pianist Burton Greene, Calistrophy, is a curious blend of klezmer, blues, swing, free form, Latin, Balkan and plain old straight ahead jazz. Greene, a founding member of the '60s cutting edge Free Form Improvisation Ensemble, was, with his group Klezmokum, also among the first to reacquaint contemporary jazz with klezmer. Joining Greene ...

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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 ...

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These Spritis Of Elsewhere

By Michael Fischer

Label: Extraplatte Musikproduktions
Released: 2000
Track listing: Prospect, Polyzoon, Painting The Blues Red, Relativity. Spirits Abroad

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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 ...