Born in New York in 1963, Benny Green grew up in Berkeley, California, and began classical piano studies at the age of seven. Influenced by his father, a tenor saxophonist, his attention soon turned into Jazz: I began trying to improvise on the piano, imitating the records I\'d been hearing from my father\'s collection, which included a lot of Monk and Bird… it was a gradual process of teaching myself"... Read more.
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