While listening to his mother’s classical records instilled a musical love in Burton Greene as a youth, it was the limitless improvisational opportunities possible in jazz, the sort of soaring he heard in Charlie Parker’s 78s, which truly ignited the flame in the Chicago-born pianist. In 1962, he migrated to New York and swiftly earned a reputation as an innovator among the already forward-thinkers of the free jazz world. Over the years, Greene has worked with pretty much every name in the avant-garde world, experimented in everything from raga to klezmer, while absorbing the world through a nomad’s eye.