Pianist/composer Burton Greene was/is one of the First Wave of Downtown NYC's avant garde/free jazz scene in the 1960s. He has played/recorded with Marion Brown, Alan Silva, Patty Waters and Pharoah Sanders, and was recorded on the legendary ESP Disk label (and a really rare one for Columbia!). For the past several years has been living and working in Amsterdam, both solo and with Klezmokum. Klezmokum is an ensemble - ranging from four to seven players - that combines loose-limbed, creative jazz

Summer’s almost here and with it comes festivals, and one of the very best on the North American continent is the Montreal Jazz Festival. From June 30 through July 12-the Festival’s 30th Anniversary-the picturesque city of Montreal will host a gathering of perhaps the most diverse assortment of international talents imaginable. There’ll be ticketed concerts and many free events-following is a cross-section A pre-opening concert, June 26: A partial reuni