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Narada Burton Greene at Wednesdays & Sundays @ Berkeley Arts

Courtesy of Diane Caudillo | Posted on April 8, 2013

Where

Wednesdays & Sundays @ Berkeley Arts
2133 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA
Map

When

Sun, April 21, 2013
8-10 pm

At Door

$10 - $20, sliding scale

Musicians

About

april 24, 2013
wednesdays @berkeley arts

Berkeley Arts is proud to present Narada Burton Greene - one of the pioneers of improvised music in North America

Burton Greene - solo piano and film

This year Narada Burton Greene celebrates his 51st year as a professional composer/pianist. Starting at the beginning of free jazz with the Free Form Improvisation Ensemble (1963) in New York with bassist Alan Silva, He has gone on to many musical incarnations including contemporary classical, world musics including Indian ragas, balkan, klezmer and sephardic musics mixed with spontaneous jazz improvisations. His latest venture is solo concerts in Europe and the States of his latest compositions which have all the above influences.. this together with the documentary film about his life and music by the English film maker Malcolm Hart entitled Moldavian Blues. Recent concerts of this were sold out in Europe. People find they can go deep into Burton's music after seeing the film. More info is at www.burtongreene.com...

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