Bunky Green

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Bunky Green (born April 23, 1935 in Milwaukee ) is an American jazz saxophonist (alto), jazz teacher, composer and arranger.

Green first played in clubs in Milwaukee and was originally heavily influenced by Charlie Parker . In the early 1960s he jumped briefly for Jackie McLean in the projects of Charles Mingus in New York, which had a formative influence on him. He then moved to Chicago, where he a. a. played with Sonny Stitt ( Soul in the Night , Stitt Goes Green ), Louie Bellson , Andrew Hill , Yusef Lateef and Ira Sullivan while developing his own style. He also recorded as a sideman with Elvin Jones , Clark Terry , Eddie Harris . More and more he shifted the focus of his work to teaching, first from 1972 to 1989 at Chicago State University and then from the 1990s as Director of Jazz Studies at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville . He was temporarily president of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE), in whose Hall of Fame he was inducted in 1999 (and also in 2003 into the Jazz Education Hall of Fame of Down Beat ). He has released recordings irregularly since the 1960s, but his “Healing the Pain” from 1989 - the title alludes to the death of his parents - and “Another Place” produced by Steve Coleman in 2006 received high ratings (5 stars) from Down Beat.

In 2007 he played for the first time in Germany at the Jazz Baltica in Salzau with his own band ( Eva Kruse (bass), Carsten Daerr (piano) and Nasheet Waits (drums)), as well as with Greg Osby and Stefano Di Battista . In the same year he also performed with the Éric Legnini Trio at the North Sea Jazz Festival .

He starred in the soundtrack of the 1989 TV movie A Raisin in the Sun with Danny Glover, based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry .

Discography

as a leader:

  • My Baby (1960, Exodus), also released as Step High (Fresh Sound)
  • Testifyin 'Time (1965, Argo)
  • Playin 'for Keeps (1966, Cadet)
  • The Latinization of Bunky Green (1967, Cadet)
  • Transformations (1977, Vanguard)
  • Visions (1978, Vanguard)
  • Places We've Never Been (1979, Vanguard)
  • In Love Again (1987, Mark)
  • Healing the Pain (1989, Delos)
  • Another Place (2006, Label Bleu)
  • The Salzau Quartet Live at Jazz Baltica (2008, Traumton / Indigo)

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personal data
SURNAME Green, bunky
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee