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Four decades inside music. Playing It. Broadcasting It. Preserving It.

Building what comes next.

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Benny Green and a young Leo Green playing saxophone together
Benny played. Leo listened. Eventually, Leo played too.

A Life Inside Music

Leo Green has spent more than three decades working across almost every side of the music business — as a saxophonist, broadcaster, concert promoter, festival founder, business executive and creator of live entertainment.

He began his professional career as a musician, joining Jerry Lee Lewis’s band at 19, before going on to perform and record with artists including Van Morrison, Paul Weller, Jools Holland, Jeff Beck and Ronnie Wood.

But performing became only one part of the story.

Alongside his career on stage came more than 250 hours of broadcasting for BBC Radio 2, an association with Jazz FM dating from its 2008 relaunch, the creation of BluesFest, eleven years at Live Nation, and a succession of independently created entertainment businesses and formats.

Today those different strands come together in a new chapter: creating, developing and owning entertainment intellectual property — while preserving and extending the extraordinary cultural inheritance left by Leo’s father, writer and broadcaster Benny Green.

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  1. 01 Musician

    Four decades on stage

    From joining Jerry Lee Lewis at 19, to hundreds of performances and recordings with Van morrison, Leo’s life as a saxophonist has taken him from jazz clubs to theatres, festivals and arena stages all over the world.

    His current work includes The Van Morrison Alumni Band and The Secret Sax Party.

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  2. 02 Broadcaster

    Music — and the stories behind it.

    Leo has scripted and presented more than 250 hours for BBC Radio 2; he joined Jazz FM at its 2008 relaunch and today writes, programmes and presents The Leo Green Show every Sunday evening from 7pm to 9pm.

    In 2021 he created www.lgradio.online, an independently produced home for long-form authored music programming and documentary series.

    Leo’s shows have included in depth interviews with numerous artists, along with hundreds of hours of broadcasting covering The Great American Songbook, the music and artists of the 1950s and Jazz.

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  3. 03 Entrepreneur

    Building businesses around Live Music and Iconic Songs

    From Artistic Director of Ronnie Scott’s Club, through AEG Live and The 02, to co-founding Full Circle Live, creating BluesFest, its acquisition by Live Nation, and more than a decade spent as Live Nation UK’s Director of Live Events.

    Today Leo is CEO and Founder of The Showtime Group, developing and scaling owned live entertainment formats and intellectual properties.

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  4. 04 Cultural inheritance

    Benny Green 1927–1998

    Leo’s father was musician, writer and broadcaster Benny Green, one of Britain’s distinctive interpreters of jazz, popular song and twentieth-century cultural life.

    Leo grew up surrounded by the records, books, musicians, writers and conversations that informed Benny’s work.

    What began as inheritance has become stewardship.

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The next chapter

Building what comes next.

Experience becomes intellectual property — the current chapter brings together everything that came before.

  1. 01The Showtime Group
  2. 02The Van Morrison Alumni Band
  3. 03LG Radio
  4. 04Icons Orchestral
  5. 05The Secret Sax Party
  6. 06Sounds of the 60s Live!
  7. 07You, Me & The Music
  8. 08The Benny Green Institute

Different ideas, sharing one underlying principle: creating entertainment with an identity that can live beyond a single performance.

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In The Room

Some careers can be told through the people encountered along the way.

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Jerry Lee Lewis

    Leo was 19 when he joined Jerry Lee Lewis’s band.

  • Van Morrison

    Van Morrison

    A letter written in 1993 began a musical relationship that would span hundreds of performances and recordings.

  • Quincy Jones

    Quincy Jones

    At The 02, Leo performed Quincy Jones’s Soul Bossa Nova with Jules Buckley & The Heritage Orchestra — part of the historical evening celebrating Quicy’s extraordinary career and 80th birthday.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Frank Sinatra

    In 1989, sixteen-year old Leo accompanied his father backstage at The Royal Albert Hall and met Frank Sinatra

Four decades in music

Selected Career Numbers

hours scripted and presented for BBC Radio 2
250+
tickets sold annually across Live Nation outdoor events at peak operation
300k+
performances of original conception BBC Sounds of the 60s Live
250+
tickets sold for BBC Sounds of the 60s Live since 2019
300k+
concert appearances with Van Morrison
250+
attendees of BluesFest London
500k+

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The Showtime Group

Investment-backed live entertainment IP and global touring ventures.

Benny Green

An extraordinary inheritance

Benny Green

Benny Green left behind more than memories.

Books. Broadcasts. Journalism. Interviews. Scripts. Correspondence. Photographs. Research.

An estimated 15 million words of written and transcribed material documenting a lifetime spent thinking about and taking part in music and twentieth century culture.

Now Leo is bringing it together, with the launch of The Benny Green Institute.

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