Dave Green

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Dave Green, concert with The ABC & D of Boogie Woogie in Herisau , 2010.

Dave Green (born March 5, 1942 in London ) is a British jazz bassist who is active in a wide variety of jazz styles. He has been named best bassist at the BT British Jazz Awards six times in a row .

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Green initially sang in the church choir; then he played skiffle music on a tea box bass before buying a double bass at the age of fifteen and switching to jazz . At first he often appeared with his neighbor Charlie Watts in the band of trumpeter Brian "Jo" Jones. Then he became a member of the then leading amateur trio with Ken Wallbank (piano) and Peter Prince (drums). In 1963 he became a professional musician and initially played with Keith Ingham and Pete Shade. In December of the same year he switched to the Don Rendell quintet (he was involved in four albums there until 1969). He also appeared on television with Benny Goodman in 1964 . Since the same year he was also involved in Michael Garrick's band projects , with whom he recorded eight albums and initially advanced into free jazz and in the early 1970s towards fusion jazz . In 1965 he toured with Humphrey Lyttelton , Big Joe Turner and Buck Clayton ; at Lyttelton he stayed until 1983. At the same time, he also belonged to the groups of Stan Tracey (until the 1990s). In the mid-1960s he also worked as a bassist at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club , where he accompanied American stars such as Roland Kirk and Sonny Rollins . In 1970 he was involved in an album with Ben Webster . He also played with Henry Lowther . In 1979 he founded his own band Fingers , with which he first presented the tribute album Fingers Remember Mingus and then went on tour of Yugoslavia in 1984 and performed at the jazz festival in Nice. In 1985 he toured Europe with Didier Lockwood and Gordon Beck . Between 1994 and 1997 he regularly accompanied Lillian Boutté in Europe. In 1996 he toured America with Charlie Watts, and in 1998 he gave concerts in Europe with Warren Vaché and George Wein ; in the same year he played with John Lewis in Bern and founded his own trio (with Iain Dixon and Gene Calderazzo ). He was also a member of Scott Hamilton's British quartet for fifteen years and, since 2007, of Chris Barber's band . He also worked with Alan Barnes , Gareth Williams , Colin Purbrook , the trio of John Bunch and the boogie project The ABC & D of Boogie Woogie .

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SURNAME Green, Dave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, David (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH London