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Benny Green
Sign in to saveAmerican hard bop jazz pianist
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
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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 States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Employer
- University of Michigan
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Blue Note
- Image
- Benny Green (pianist).jpg
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- name in native language
- Benny Green
- Commons category
- Benny Green
- date of birth
- 1963-04-04
- different from
- Benny Green
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