"If you can play the Blues, you can do anything" - Ray Charles"

Charles Greene is a Hard-Bop Jazz Pianist, Funk Keyboardist, Composer, and One-Man-Band. This highly intuitive musician was born in Detroit and grew up on the West side, where his love affair with the piano began as soon as he could crawl up on the bench. He was steeped in the old-school gospel of the Pentecostal church as a child, and then spent his teen years studying the recordings of the masters of Jazz, Blues, and R&B, leading his own band, and sneaking into the bars and lounges of the Motor City to listen and learn from the "old cats".

His youthful tenacity even enabled him to meet John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk backstage at Cobo Arena in 1966. He has toured with several Motown acts (the Spinners, 4 Tops, Jimmy Ruffin), and also worked with Richard "Groove" Holmes, Ernestine Anderson, Laura Lee, Marcus Belgrave, Jerald Daemyon, and many, many others. In 2006 he traveled to the Netherlands (Holland) to participate in "The Super Jam Session" with Trombonist Curtis Fuller and Saxaphonist Javon Jackson at the Haarlem Jazz Festival. While there, he also performed some of his original music in an Electronic Funk duo.

Currently, Greene is producing music projects, and working as a One-Man-Jazz-Band in the Midwest and South Florida.