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Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.

~Benny Green

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I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.

~Benny Green

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I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

~Benny Green

Topics: Actually Almost Beat Club Feel Feelings Intimacy Like Out People Say See Shout Similar Them Things Up Will You

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Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen.

~Benny Green

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Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

~Benny Green

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He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.

~Benny Green

Topics: Develop Forward He Help His Intention Jazz People Player Potential Take Them Voice Would Writer You Young Young People

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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

~Benny Green

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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.

~Benny Green

Topics: Album Almost Almost Every Day Born Day Dream Every Every Day Father First Heard His Jazz Listening Monk Pianist Time I Was Born

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Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.

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I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.

~Benny Green

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: December 9th, 1927

Died: June 22nd, 1998

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