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Dave Green

Dave Green is a British double bassist and bandleader whose career spans visiting American soloists, long-running UK groups, and open-form trio work.

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Career Overview

About Dave Green

The National Jazz Archive identifies Green as a British double bassist active across the modern UK jazz era. In a 2023 interview, Green traces his early work from skiffle and the Don Rendell Quintet into an eighteen-year run with Humphrey Lyttelton and engagements with visiting musicians at Ronnie Scott's.[1][2]

The interview also documents Green's own band Fingers, the later Still Waters ensemble with Henry Lowther, and the Dave Green Trio recording Raise Four with guest Evan Parker. The reissued Fingers sessions preserve a separate leader project built around Bruce Turner, Lol Coxhill, Michael Garrick, and Alan Jackson.[2][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader and bassist

Dave Green Trio

Green's trio with saxophonist Iain Dixon and drummer Gene Calderazzo recorded Raise Four with guest Evan Parker from a Jazz on 3 broadcast.[2]

Leader and bassist

Fingers

The group brought Green together with Bruce Turner, Lol Coxhill, Michael Garrick, and Alan Jackson for its Remember Mingus material and related recordings.[2][3]

Bassist and member

Henry Lowther's Still Waters

Green's interview identifies Still Waters as an active later-career ensemble and discusses its 2018 recording Can't Believe, Won't Believe.[2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

1980 · Spotlite Records

Remember Mingus

Fingers leader and bassist

The Fingers project documents Green with Bruce Turner, Lol Coxhill, Michael Garrick, and Alan Jackson in an ensemble formed around Mingus repertoire.[2][3]

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2018 · Village Life

Can't Believe, Won't Believe

Bassist with Henry Lowther's Still Waters

The Still Waters album represents Green's later ensemble work with trumpeter Henry Lowther and the group's continuing touring practice.[2]

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2022 · Trio Records

Raise Four

Dave Green Trio leader and bassist with Evan Parker

The release draws on a 2004 Jazz on 3 broadcast with Iain Dixon, Gene Calderazzo, and guest saxophonist Evan Parker.[2]

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Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Sun, Oct 11, 8:00 PM

Matyas Gayer Trio

PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho · London

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Fri, Oct 16, 1:00 PM

The Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet

PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho · London

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Thu, Oct 29, 8:00 PM

John Altman & Friends

PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho · London

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Institutional identity and instrument record

    National Jazz Archive

  2. [2] Career interview and project history

    Morning Star

  3. [3] Complete Fingers release and personnel notes

    Jazz in Britain