Benny Green

Bud Powell.

And you're going to hear a version by the Benny Green Trio, and also you're going to hear a version by Chick Corea.

Here's the music of the Benny Green Trio on Jazz in the 8.

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That is from a CD called Chick Corea, Remembering Bud Powell, Chick Corea and Friends.

A little solo piano work there.

And before that, you heard a version of Celia by the Benny Green Trio.

It was a tribute to McCoy Tyner with McCoy.

So there was, uh, it was myself, Kenny Barron, Benny Green, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, uh, Joe Lovano, Jerry Allen, and Marcus Roberts.

And, uh, but I just remember sitting on the piano with Chick Corea, and I'm looking across the, at McCoy Tyner, and I'm like, you know, it's just, it felt, felt like I was hallucinating.

And, um, and, and yeah.

I went to Wesleyan University, and Bill Barron, who was a reeds player, saxophone and multi-reeds player, he's the brother of pianist Kenny Barron, and he was heading the music department at Wesleyan.

And great jazz musicians came and played at Wesleyan, and I heard Betty Carter's band, with Benny Green on piano.

This is circa, what, 1986, 85, something like this.

And I was blown away.

That's our great bassist, Ray Brown, with his trio from 1987 live at Scullers in Boston.

The trio consisted of Benny Green at the piano and Gregory Hutchinson at the drums.

tune, If You Only Knew.

First up in the set, we heard from tenor saxophonist Don Braden from his debut recording, The Time Is Now, and it featured Tom Harrell at the trumpet, Benny Green again at the piano with Christian McBride bass and Carl Allen at the drums, and they did the great American songbook classic, Will You Still Be Mine? Now tenor saxophonist Frank Foster with Dad Jones and Mel Lewis on Giant Steps.

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I'm Bobby Broom.

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Speaking of sellouts, Crystal Bridges has the Candlelight Jazz from Benny Green.

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Oh, the jazz, not Crystal Bridges.

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And then the Compton in Bentonville will have their next Porch Lights session Wednesday night from 5 until 7 with T.J. Scarlett.

Why don't we end? If you can't, if you don't have your tickets for Benny Green and the Candlelight Jazz at Crystal Bridges, we'll just play some music to go out with him.

Just like you're there.

He's also recorded five albums with the Cologne-based Subway Jazz Orchestra and joined the WDR Big Band as a guest musician in productions and concerts.

He's performed around the world with musicians like John Clayton, Kurt Elling, Maria Schneider, Benny Green, Jeff Hamilton, Ingrid Jensen, and Peter Evans, just to name a few.

And since 2026, Michael Kroll has been a professor of jazz trumpet at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg.

the notes for the album say it's inspired by the idea that no flower blooms without rain the music reflects the quiet strength that can emerge from difficult seasons transforming experience into sound with warmth clarity and lyrical depth The lineup here, Michael Kroll on trumpet, Konstantin Kromer on piano, Jakob Kuhnermann on bass, Fabian Roche on drums, and we've got a guest vocalist on a couple of tracks, Tamara Lukasheva, and she's originally from Odessa.

Right now we're going to feature music from a guy who was a member of the finishing school of jazz, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

Here's Benny Green.

This is the title track of an album that he released on the Blue Note label back in 1999.

The name of the cut is entitled These Are Soulful Days.

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But it's also very mathematical and just slightly off-balance, which is basically consistent with Monk's public image versus his very technical way of playing the piano.

Benny Green and a tune that I heard on a Rick Patron show that I'm very fond of.

It's Captain Hook.

Benny Green emerges out of the Park Lake Jazz Messenger crowd.

Then he played with Benny Carter for a while on the Jazz Vocalist.

This 2000 album features the tune Captain Hook and it kind of all has a nautical theme to it.