Apr 10, 2025 2:15 PM
Once again, in preparation for Record Store Day — this Saturday, April 12 — DownBeat goes crate-diggin’ to bring you jewels that are officially part of RSD, as well as a few…
“I heard Lou Donaldson for the first time, and that down-home feeling of his was a gas,” said Bunky Green about one of his early influences.
(Photo: DownBeat Archive)Mar 11, 2025 1:04 PM
“Keep up the intensity, keep up the intensity!” urged the diminutive alto saxophonist. He was talking to his new group in the midst of a recording session, but he could just as well have been talking aloud to himself. For most of his life, 30-year-old Bunky Green has been keeping up the intensity of the one thing with which he is most familiar — making music.
Watching the dapper altoist at work brought to mind a statement he had made, though at the time he said it, he had shied a little at the possibly corny overtones: “I think many times…
