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Benny Green was born in Leeds because his mother wanted to be near her own family for the birth, but they soon returned to London, to a basement flat in Cleveland Street.
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Fred Astaire
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Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green on Jazz
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The world's leading authority on jazz and popular song, Benny Green was a prolific writer whose material spanned every aspect of the musical arts. As an insider who knew and worked with most of his subjects, Benny wrote from a matchless personal perspective. Now, for the first time, previously unpublished writing joins sleevenotes and live reviews, books and obituaries in a unique collection put together by his son, Dominic, following Benny Green's death in 1998. Included in SUCH SWEET THUNDER are discussions on the great songwriters and leading jazz singers; the role of jazz in musicals; the leading jazz musicians. From Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra, Irving Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein, SUCH SWEET THUNDER is essential reading for all music fans.
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The Reluctant Art
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A Hymn to Him: The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
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In the course of a career which produced sixteen musicals, most of them written in collaboration with his long-standing partner Fritz Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner won a place among the greatest lyricists of the century. Songs like "On a Clear Day," "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," "I Remember It Well," "On the Street Where You Live," and many others have transcended the musicals for which they were written and passed into common currency. This collection of Lerner's lyrics includes not only the much-loved songs from his musicals but also the less familiar work. Hardcover.
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(The Reluctant Art) Author: Benny Green published on (September, 2011)
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Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green on Jazz by Benny Green (2002-11-04)
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The Reluctant Art, Five Studies in the Growth of Jazz
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P.G. Wodehouse, a Literary Biography
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An impressive biography, well-researched and equally well-written of the creator of the inimitable Jeeves the butler, Bertie Wooster, Psmith, Lord Emsworth, and other unforgettable characters. Despite being an author of highly imaginative and successful novels, and his careers in Hollywood as a successful screenwriter and a Boardway lyricist that kept him forever in the public eye, Wodehouse was a very private man that few people actually knew. A fascinating story of how Wodehouse mirrored his life in fiction, for example his stint as a bank clerk in London and a vast array of experiences that he used in his novels & screenplays. Biographer Green chronicles the events that influenced him, his likes and dislikes, his distrust and hatred of Tinseltown, banking system & bankers, the 9 to 5 drudgery and his contempt for politicians of any type. A very complex, private individual, whose public never realized his need for his highly valued privacy or how close his work bore hints of the real man behind the curtain. Fascinating and highly entertaining.
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The Reluctant Art (Da Capo Paperback)
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The Reluctant Art, first published in 1962 and long out-of-print, stands as one of the most important books on the art of jazz. Comprising five studies—of Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker (with the addition of an essay of Art Tatum for this new edition)—Benny Green's humorous, eloquent, and often angry book attempts to point out the gulf between the reality of the jazz musician and his music, on the one hand, and the romantic conceits of early jazz writing and fandom, on the other. Green, himself an excellent early jazz musician, was one of the first jazz writers to bring to the task firsthand knowledge of the music, and this illuminates his understanding of the factors involved in jazz innovation. He discusses jazz in terms of musical and social history, retelling the over-mythologized stories of these great artists with a unique combination of joyous irreverence and acute critical insight, of inspired metaphors and masterly knowledge. Benny Green's classic book swings with the same energy and passion as the timeless music it discusses.
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A Hymn to Him: The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner by Benny Green (2004-08-01)
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Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green On Jazz by Benny Green (2002-11-04)
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Fred Astaire by Benny Green (1980-05-03)
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P.G. Wodehouse, a Literary Biography by Benny Green (1981-11-03)
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Benny Green
Edit ProfileEducation
He was educated at Clipstone Street Junior Mixed School and Street Marylebone Grammar School.
Career
They met while David was playing with a band in Leeds. Here he became a musician, writer and broadcaster. As a saxophonist, he worked in the bands of Ronnie Scott, Dizzy Reece and Stan Kenton.
The novelty jazz/rock release "Hoots Mon", complete with spoken interjections in a broad mock-Scots accent, reached number 1 for three weeks in November and December.
Benny later joked that wearing dark glasses whilst playing (to counteract the strong studio lights) generated a fan letter addressed to "the blind sax-player". His British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 Sunday afternoon record show ran for many years until his death.
He also chaired a radio comedy panel game broadcast regularly on Radio 2 and the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service for 20 years. Jazz Score. Many jazz artists appeared on this show, stopping the contest to tell their own anecdotes about their career and other jazz musicians.
He first worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1955 and worked regularly for it from then on.
In the 1960s he often appeared (with, among others, Alan Brien, Dee Wells and Robert Pitman) on Three After Six, Associated Rediffusion"s early evening television discussion programme on current affairs In the 1980s he contributed occasionally to Stop The Week, Robert Robinson"s Saturday discussion programme on Radio 4. Green also wrote and/or narrated many radio documentaries about stage and film musical stars and Hollywood, his other main interest apart from jazz and sport.
He also wrote for magazines, including Punch, and regularly for newspapers.
He was a big fan of writer P. G. Wodehouse, about whom he wrote a literary biography (1981). Away from jazz he is notable for publishing the Wisden Anthologies, a summary of the famous cricketing annual, between 1979 and 1983.
The four volumes covered the highlights from Wisden Cricketers" Almanack from its inception in 1864 until 1982 and stand as a major milestone in cricketing literature. One son, Dominic Green, is a guitarist who has published a book about his father.
Benny Green Words and Music (2003).
Another, Leo Green, has followed in his father"s footsteps as a Radio 2 broadcaster. Green died at the age of 70 of cancer in the Royal Marsden Hospital in Fulham.
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A Hymn to Him: The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
(In the course of a career which produced sixteen musicals...)
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P.G. Wodehouse, a Literary Biography
(An impressive biography, well-researched and equally well...)
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The Reluctant Art
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
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Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green on Jazz
(The world's leading authority on jazz and popular song, B...)
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The Reluctant Art (Da Capo Paperback)
( The Reluctant Art, first published in 1962 and long out...)
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(The Reluctant Art) Author: Benny Green published on (September, 2011)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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A Hymn to Him: The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner by Benny Green (2004-08-01)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- Fred Astaire
- The Reluctant Art The Growth of Jazz
- Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green on Jazz by Benny Green (2002-11-04)
- The Reluctant Art, Five Studies in the Growth of Jazz
- Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green On Jazz by Benny Green (2002-11-04)
- Fred Astaire by Benny Green (1980-05-03)
- P.G. Wodehouse, a Literary Biography by Benny Green (1981-11-03)
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A Hymn to Him: The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
Membership
In 1958, he appeared in the United Kingdom popular charts as a member of Lord Rockingham"s XI, the house band on Independent Television"s rock "n" roll show Oh Boy!.
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