TONY GREEN
Tony Greene's musical taste and style as a saxophonist, producer and arranger should come as no surprise to anyone who know Jamaicans Musicians, like Tommy McCook, 'Deadly' Headley Bennett, Cedric "Im" Brooks and Lester Sterling, Tony Greene's Life has been one long musical journey. Greene's formative years where he learned and developed his musical skills was at world renowned and famous Alpha Boys' School and the musical influences of that experience provided him with a very real sense of style and originality. That you only get from an ALPHARIAN musician his horn technique is typically the style of a ALPHARIAN he blow a Mean Groovy Rocking Sax like Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall and Tommy McCook.
Greene spent a six-year stint in the Jamaica Military Band. In the military, Greene fine-tuned the practical side of his craft at the Royal College of Music in London where composers Trevor Sharpe and Henry Mancini were among his tutors. Mr. Greene, embracing the pop culture in Jamaica, first joined the Bare Essentials Band before moving on to the jazz-based Sonny Bradshaw Seven. After a stint with Bradshaw, Greene again switched gears to the roots movement when he signed up with the Roots Radics unit who were then backing singer Gregory Isaacs. But it was with Lloyd Parkes and We The People Band that Greene has made most impact. As part of singer Dennis Brown's official band, Greene has helped to break reggae in areas where the music was unknown - from Greece to the South Pacific and beyond.
While working on his own albums he still found time to record with other artistes including the renowned Riddim Twins, Sly and Robbie, on whose Grammy-winning "Friends" album he played. Some of Greene’s albums are Mean Greene, Grooving Sax, Evolution and Square from Cuba.
Greene spent a six-year stint in the Jamaica Military Band. In the military, Greene fine-tuned the practical side of his craft at the Royal College of Music in London where composers Trevor Sharpe and Henry Mancini were among his tutors. Mr. Greene, embracing the pop culture in Jamaica, first joined the Bare Essentials Band before moving on to the jazz-based Sonny Bradshaw Seven. After a stint with Bradshaw, Greene again switched gears to the roots movement when he signed up with the Roots Radics unit who were then backing singer Gregory Isaacs. But it was with Lloyd Parkes and We The People Band that Greene has made most impact. As part of singer Dennis Brown's official band, Greene has helped to break reggae in areas where the music was unknown - from Greece to the South Pacific and beyond.
While working on his own albums he still found time to record with other artistes including the renowned Riddim Twins, Sly and Robbie, on whose Grammy-winning "Friends" album he played. Some of Greene’s albums are Mean Greene, Grooving Sax, Evolution and Square from Cuba.
