TWO SHADES OF GREENE BURTON GREENE SOLO BURTON GREENE’S ‘KLEZ-THETICS’

From free jazz pioneer to klezmer innovator; Burton Green’s musical career has been very remarkable. He has always been hard to place, this might be why he deserves more recognition. He recorded his first solo improvisations for legendary avant-garde labels like Guild and ESP in the 60’s, when he was present at the birth of New Thing in New York. Later on he would admit more of his Jewish inheritance in his work which led to the exploration of Sefardic melodies and ‘Balkan Swing’ timing with Klezmokum and now with Hungarian master Akos Laki in the Klez-thetics.