Benny Green
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British jazz saxophonist and writer (1927-1998)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1927
- Died
- 1998
- Works
- 43
Top works
- The reluctant art
- The Mermaid Theatre's Cole
- Wisden anthology 1940-1963
- The Lord's companion
- The Wisden papers 1969-1990
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 62,803
- Total plays
- 288,071
Tags
jazzpianojazz pianoinstrumentaljazz-piano
Benny Green was born in New York in 1963 but was raised in Berkeley, California. He began classical piano studies at the age of seven. In 1993 Oscar Peterson chose Benny as the first recipient of the City of Toronto's Glen Gould International Protégé Prize in Music. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Benny+Green">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Green
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Leeds
- Place of death
- Surrey
- Occupation
- music journalist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- jazz
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
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- Commons category
- Benny Green
- date of birth
- 1927-12-09
- date of death
- 1998-06-22
- different from
- Benny Green
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Golders Green Crematorium
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