Benny Green

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Review:

This is the two hundred seventeenth in a series of special Jazz on the Tube reviews of live stream performances.

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One of the top jazz pianists of the past 35 years, Benny Green is part of the jazz tradition of masterful pianists who emerged during the 1950s and ‘60s although he is from a later generation

He was part of Betty Carter’s band, is rightfully proud of his years as a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, worked with Freddie Hubbard and the Ray Brown Trio, and has led over 20 albums of his own.

During his LiveStream of Nov. 19, 2020, Benny Green performs solo piano versions of “Soulful Mister Timmons,” “Ruby, My Dear,” Horace Silver’s “No Smoking,” a blues, and several boppish numbers before concluding with Silver’s “Opus de Funk,” swinging creatively all the time in joyful fashion.

-Scott Yanow