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| Burton Greene Trio at Cornelia Street Cafe Sunday, January 7, 2007 Burton Greene Trio featuring Ed Schuller, bass; George Schuller, drums; and special guest Russ Nolan, soprano and tenor sax; will perform at Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC, New York. This is a new group, although the players know each other and have been friends for years. The idea of the piano trio is to present jazz which emcompasses a wide history of the jazz piano literature. We play "inside", "outside", "up and down", for that matter.. The group members have vast experiences in all kinds of jazz forms.. from the 1940's and '50's until the present avant improvised music. Along the way there are ethnic quotes from Balkan and other native folk sources, and a distinct feeling for the classics as well. Burton Greene has been on the jazz scene since 1962 first in New York, and then in Europe since the early 70's. He's one of the creators of the "NYC downtown sound". His early 60's group the Freeform Improvisation Ensemble with Alan Silva was a trail blazer for the free improv groups that followed. Burton was an original member of the Jazz Composers Guild in 1964. Since that time he has over 40 recordings of his music in a wide range of contexts, solo to large ensemble, acoustic and electronic musics. Burton spends a lot of time in New York these days, matriculating from his home on a houseboat in Amsterdam. Reviewer Derek Taylor in a recent issue of All About Jazz writes "Burton Greene ranks as one of the seasoned survivors in creative improvised music. Like a handful of his ESP Records peers he's still at it after all these years, plugging away at his craft and creating chameleonic music along the way... Greene sounds great as well, foraging over the finely tuned ivories with a self-assurance and acuity ideally suited to the auspicious surroundings." write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |