Leo Green is a British

British people

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 musician, broadcaster, producer, actor, musical arranger, concert promoter.

Early life

Green is the son of the late BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...

 broadcaster, writer and musician Benny Green and actress Toni Kanal, and is the brother of the writer and musician Dominic Green.

Career in the 1990s

By the age of 20, Green was playing sax for Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...

. Lewis declared Green "The greatest sax player I have ever worked with". Following two years touring all over the world with Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...

, Green joined Van Morrison

Van Morrison

Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...

's band from 1995 to 2000, appearing all over the world, playing concerts, festivals and theatres. During this period, Green recoded many albums with Morrison, as a soloist and as an arranger. He also spent two years touring and recording with Jools Holland

Jools Holland

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Who, David Gilmour and Bono.Holland is a...

, toured the world with Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield is an English singer and songwriter.-Early years:Stansfield was born to Marion and Keith Stansfield in Heywood, Lancashire, in England, where she attended Redbrook School, Rochdale. Her first television appearance was on a talent programme in the Granada TV area in 1982...

 and toured regularly with Marti Pellow

Marti Pellow

Marti Pellow has been the lead singer of the Scottish pop group Wet Wet Wet since their formation in 1982. He has also recorded solo material.-Early life:...

.

By the end of his twenties, he had built up an astonishing CV, having worked with almost every major musical figure in the world: Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...

, Little Richard

Little Richard

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, Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...

, Ray Charles

Ray Charles

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, James Brown

James Brown

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, Van Morrison

Van Morrison

Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...

, Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

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, Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach

Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...

 & Hal David

Hal David

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, Tom Jones

Tom Jones (singer)

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, Ronnie Wood, Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello

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, Paul Weller

Paul Weller

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, Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick

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, Chrissie Hynde

Chrissie Hynde

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, Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie

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, Sting, Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

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, Roger Daltry, Ray Davies

Ray Davies

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, Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

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, Joss Stone

Joss Stone

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, Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

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, Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry

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, Carl Perkins

Carl Perkins

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, Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley

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, Little Walter

Little Walter

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, Ben E. King

Ben E. King

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, Sam Moore

Sam Moore

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, Hank Crawford

Hank Crawford

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 & Jimmy McGriff

Jimmy McGriff

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, Jimmy Witherspoon

Jimmy Witherspoon

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, John Dankworth

John Dankworth

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, Annie Ross

Annie Ross

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, Mose Allison

Mose Allison

Mose John Allison, Jr. is an American jazz blues pianist and singer.-Biography:...

, Petula Clark

Petula Clark

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, Clarence Clemons

Clarence Clemons

Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. , also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. From 1972 until his death, he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone. He released several solo albums and in 1985, had a hit single with "You're a...

, Marti Pellow

Marti Pellow

Marti Pellow has been the lead singer of the Scottish pop group Wet Wet Wet since their formation in 1982. He has also recorded solo material.-Early life:...

, Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher

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, Georgie Fame

Georgie Fame

Georgie Fame is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. The one-time rock and roll tour musician, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer, often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman.-Early life:Fame took piano lessons from the...

, Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack

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, Lulu

Lulu (singer)

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, Jay Kay, Danni Minogue, Daniel Beddingfield, Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield is an English singer and songwriter.-Early years:Stansfield was born to Marion and Keith Stansfield in Heywood, Lancashire, in England, where she attended Redbrook School, Rochdale. Her first television appearance was on a talent programme in the Granada TV area in 1982...

, Cerys Matthews

Cerys Matthews

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, Emma Bunton

Emma Bunton

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, Heather Small

Heather Small

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, Stereophonics

Stereophonics

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, Mick Hucknall

Mick Hucknall

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, Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

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, Brian Kennedy

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, All Saints

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, Charleen Spitteri, Dina Carroll

Dina Carroll

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, Gabrielle

Gabrielle (singer)

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, Simon Webbe

Simon Webbe

Simon Solomon Webbe is an English singer-songwriter, actor and music manager. He is best known as a member of the British boyband Blue.-2001–2005: Early Career And Blue:...

, Sir Paul McCartney. In addition he has served as the producer for Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

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.

He made his acting debut in the British movie Swing, in which he appeared alongside Hugo Speer

Hugo Speer

Hugo Speer is an English actor.He was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and educated at Harrogate Grammar School. He studied acting at The Arts Educational School....

, Rita Tushingham

Rita Tushingham

-Career:Born in Liverpool, Tushingham began her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse. Her screen debut was in A Taste of Honey...

, Tom Bell

Tom Bell (actor)

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, Alexei Sayle

Alexei Sayle

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, Clarence Clemons

Clarence Clemons

Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. , also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. From 1972 until his death, he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone. He released several solo albums and in 1985, had a hit single with "You're a...

 and Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield is an English singer and songwriter.-Early years:Stansfield was born to Marion and Keith Stansfield in Heywood, Lancashire, in England, where she attended Redbrook School, Rochdale. Her first television appearance was on a talent programme in the Granada TV area in 1982...

 and was also featured on the soundtrack album.

Green was the musical director and conductor for Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach

Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...

 and Hal David

Hal David

Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...

 during their show at the Royal Albert Hall

Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....

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Green was musical director, arranger and conductor for Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for their show at the Hammersmith Apollo

Hammersmith Apollo

Hammersmith Apollo is a major entertainment venue located in Hammersmith, London. Designed by Robert Cromie in Art Deco style, it opened in 1932 as the Gaumont Palace cinema, being re-named the Hammersmith Odeon in 1962...

.

2000s

Green began booking and promoting shows in the U.K. and was appointed Artistic Director of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a jazz club which has operated in London since 1959.The club opened on 30 October 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district. It was managed by musicians Ronnie Scott and Pete King. In 1965 it moved to a larger venue nearby at 47 Frith Street...

 in 2005, prior to a huge refurbishment. As Artistic Director, Green completely over hauled the stage times and opening hours of the club and introduced the concept of 2 houses in one night at the club. In two and a half years, Green booked, contracted and promoted over 400 acts and managed to somehow convince an incredible array of artists to appear at the club: Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....

, Van Morrison

Van Morrison

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, Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

, Chick Corea

Chick Corea

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, David Sanborn

David Sanborn

David Sanborn is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school...

, Ramsey Lewis

Ramsey Lewis

Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received seven gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.-Biography:...

, Ron Carter

Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an American jazz double-bassist. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that...

, Branford Marsalis

Branford Marsalis

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, Keely Smith

Keely Smith

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, Macy Gray

Macy Gray

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, Jose Felliciano, Chris Botti

Chris Botti

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, Little Jimmy Scott, The Stylistics

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, Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading

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, Marlena Shaw

Marlena Shaw

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, Roy Hargrove

Roy Hargrove

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, Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

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, Monty Alexander

Monty Alexander

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, and others. He came up and implemented the idea of "The Ronnie Scott's All Stars", "The Ronnie Scott's Club Big Band" and with Trumpeter Gerard Presencer

Gerard Presencer

Gerard Presencer is an English jazz trumpeter who has also made a name as a session player in pop-music contexts, and as a jazz educator. He currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Biography :...

, "The Ronnie Scott's Vanguard Orchestra". He established "The Ronnie Scott's Jazz Awards", which he wrote and presented, and through his bookings, ensured the club received worldwide media coverage. He established and presented "The Ronnie Scott's Club Podcast', which became the most downloaded jazz podcast in the world.

In December 2007 Green left Ronnie Scott's and moved to the iconic 02 where he spent 2 years as Senior Booker for AEG Live booking, contracting and promoting some of the most iconic acts in the world into AEG's flagship venue "Indigo2". In March 2010 Green joined forces with entertainment industry veteran John Revell to form "Full Circle Live" www.fullcirclelive.co.uk

Other activities

Green also plays saxophone and sings in his own band: The Leo Green Experience.

He is also a radio broadcaster. Green has presented on Smooth FM, and since October 2008 has hosted his own show Leo Green and Friends on Jazz FM, for which he received a nomination for "Best Newcomer On U.K Radio" at the prestigious "Arqiva Radio Awards". The show airs at 2pm-4pm every Sunday - the same time his late father, Benny Green's show aired for twenty years on BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...

.

Musical style

Green's saxophone style is heavily influenced by the Rhythm and Blues players of the 1950s, Big Jay McNeely

Big Jay McNeely

Big Jay McNeely is an American rhythm and blues saxophonist.-Biography:...

, Illinois Jacquet

Illinois Jacquet

Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, best remembered for his solo on "Flying Home", critically recognized as the first R&B saxophone solo....

, Arnett Cobb

Arnett Cobb

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, King Curtis

King Curtis

Curtis Ousley , who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophone virtuoso known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, funk and soul jazz. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer...

, Junior Walker and his explosive, high energy stage performances have become his trademark. In 2010 the legendary guitarist Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...

 declared "Leo Green has to be one of the best and craziest saxophonists ever".

Credits

As a solo artist:

• Suited And Booted (2006)
• Sax Moods - The Way We Were (2002)
• Straight Up (1998)

Green is credited as a musician on the following recordings:

Van Morrison

Van Morrison

Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...

• Days Like This (1995)
• How Long Has This Been Going On
  How Long Has This Been Going On
  How Long Has This Been Going On is the twenty-fourth album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, "with Georgie Fame and Friends", released in 1996...
  
  (1996) (with Georgie Fame
  Georgie Fame
  Georgie Fame is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. The one-time rock and roll tour musician, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer, often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman.-Early life:Fame took piano lessons from the...
  
   and friends)
• Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison
  Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison
  Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison is the twenty-fifth album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, Georgie Fame, Mose Allison and Ben Sidran, released in 1996. It charted at #1 on the Top Jazz Albums chart.-Recording history:...
  
  (1996) (with Georgie Fame
  Georgie Fame
  Georgie Fame is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. The one-time rock and roll tour musician, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer, often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman.-Early life:Fame took piano lessons from the...
  
  , Ben Sidran
  Ben Sidran
  Ben Sidran is an American jazz and rock pianist, organist, vocalist and writer born in Chicago, noted for his work with the early Steve Miller Band.-Biography:...
  
  , and Mose Allison
  Mose Allison
  Mose John Allison, Jr. is an American jazz blues pianist and singer.-Biography:...
  
  )
• The Healing Game
  The Healing Game
  The Healing Game is the twenty-sixth album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1997 .The June 30, 2008 reissued and remastered version of the album contains a take of the "Rough God Goes Riding" B-side "At the End of the Day"."Rough God Goes Riding" from this album was...
  
  (1997)
• Back on Top [Bonus Tracks] (originally released 1999)

Jools Holland

Jools Holland

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Who, David Gilmour and Bono.Holland is a...

• Small World Big Band (2001)
• Swing Album (2001)
• Jools Holland's Big Band (2002)
• More Friends: Small World Big Band, Vol. 2 (2002)
• Swinging the Blues Dancing the Ska (2005)

Various

• Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute (1997)
• A Tribute to Bacharach & David (2001)
• A Tribute to Leiber & Stoller (2002)
• Let Me Be Your Side Track: The Influence of Jimmy Rogers (2008)

External links

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