Green, Joseph Peter
(1892–1939)
GREEN, JOSEPH PETER (9 Feb 1892, Omaha, Nebraska; 16 Oct 1939, New York, New York). Starting on piano and drums, Joe Green matured in his father’s “George Green Band” and began playing professionally as a theater and hotel orchestra drummer, freelancing in Omaha, Chicago (where he studied with Joseph Zettleman for three years), New York (1916, with Bohumir Kryl’s Band), Minneapolis, and Kansas City. In 1917 he moved to New York, having mastered the xylophone, and was a featured soloist for…