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Chris Greene Quartet

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As soon as the Chris Greene Quartet takes the stage, jazz and rock audiences alike notice something different – something besides the fact that they’re seated next to each other. The jazz crowd can’t help but sense the charisma and electricity, not always seen in a jazz band, that emanates from the quartet even during the saxophonist’s most committed solos. And those fans accustomed to the high energy and loose hi-jinks of a rock band suddenly find themselves diving deeper into improvised music than they might have thought possible. At a time when jazz continues to seek new audiences, the Chris Greene Quartet sits poised on the future’s cusp. In much the way that classical composers have historically used native folk elements as the basis for their art, the CGQ uses familiar modern materials – the funk and hip-hop he heard growing up – as a bridge between jazz and other genres. At the band’s heart, of course, is the leader, born (in 1973) and raised in Evanston, Illinois, the first suburb north of Chicago and the culturally precocious home of Northwestern University. A young veteran who has worked with a raft of top-name artists – from hip-hop icon Common to superstar vocalist Sheena Easton to local heroes like Liquid Soul and The Mighty Blue Kings – Greene began playing alto saxophone at the age of 10. He developed his skills in the award-winning Evanston High School music program; while there, he began to perform professionally with local jazz and rock groups, and continued to do so after entering the prestigious Jazz Studies Program at Indiana University in Bloomington.

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