BURTON GREENE
Avant-Garde Jazz / World Fusion • United States
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American jazz pianist, born June 14, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, USA; died June 28, 2021 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Burton Greene was born in Chicago on June 14, 1937. He studied classical music with an Austrian piano teacher, Isadore Buchalter, at the Fine Arts Academy; he later connected with pianist-arranger Dick Marx, learning jazz harmony and theory.
As a teenager Greene was enamored of bebop, doing his best to emulate Bud Powell. As he began to circulate on the Chicago scene, he realized that was a dead end. “The lesson, especially from black musicians in Chicago, was ‘Be yourself — don’t copy nobody,’” he recalled in 2017, in an interview with Nashville Scene. “They were really irate. They didn’t care how many notes you played or how correct you were in the form or whatever. They really wanted you to be personal.”
That compulsion, ironically enough, drove Greene from Chicago to New York
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Aquariana
Avant-Garde Jazz
1969
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Throptics
Avant-Garde Jazz
1999
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Mountains
Avant-Garde Jazz
1971
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Isms Out
Avant-Garde Jazz
2004
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