Paul Green Jazz Blues Quartet

($15-$25 tickets + taxes and fees | 6:30pm show) Blues/Jazz harmonica player and bandleader Paul Green returns to the Century Room for a swinging night of jazz!

PAUL GREEN

Paul began playing harmonica in 1968, inspired by both country and urban blues artists. His professional musical career began in New Jersey in 1971 with the Blackberry Booze Band. Moving to Oakland California in 1975, He became a member of the house band at a popular blues spot Eli’s mile high club, performing there weekly and recording two albums on the Red Lightning label out of England with JJ Malone and Troyce Key. From 1975 to 1989 he performed throughout the Bay Area with his own band and other musicians including Sonny Rhodes, Little Frankie Lee, “JJ Bad Boy” Jones, Cool Papa, Percy Mayfield, Lowell Fulson, Pee Wee Crayton, John Little John, and many others.

In 1989 he relocated to Chicago where he continued to perform at such legendary blues clubs as Buddy Guy’s, Rosa’s, The Kingston Mine’s, and Blues Etc., and shared the stage with such notables as Junior Wells and Sugar Blue.

Relocating to Seattle in 1991, Paul won the Washington Blues Society award for the “Best Blues Harmonica” in 1992. Since then he has won that award multiple times and the Blues Society eventually named the annual “Best Blues Harmonica” award after him. He has also won the award for “Best Vocalist” twice. In 2008 he was voted into the Washington Blues Society Hall Of Fame, and in 2017 he received their Life Time Achievement Award.