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Benny Green Trio at Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center
Courtesy of Kimberly C Chmura | Posted on November 16, 2016
Where
Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center
3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Map
954.462.0222
When
Sat, December 3, 2016
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Benny Green
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Benny Green Trio at Miniaci December 3
South Florida JAZZ presents the Benny Green Trio Saturday December 3 at 8 PM at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd in Davie.
Benny Green possesses the history of jazz at his fingertips. Combine mastery of keyboard technique with decades of real world experience playing with no one less than the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and it’s no wonder Green has been hailed as perhaps the most exciting hard-swinging, hard-bop pianist to ever emerge from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Since emerging under the tutelage of Betty Carter, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard and Ray Brown in the early 1980s, Benny Green has become a highly regarded pianist and bandleader. His efforts to expand upon the language of the classical jazz canon have placed him not only among the best interpreters but also among the vanguard of musicians keeping jazz’s evolution going. ...