Claude "Fats" Greene

Claude “Fats” Greene, (born in Panama 1913, died January 13, 1968). The Fats Greene Orchestra continued under the name of Music by Pritchard, named after its tenor sax player who took the role as the new bandleader. The Fats Greene Orchestra had originally been known as Mac Beth the Great. When its bandleader Mac Beth passed away in the early 1950’s Fats took it over and the Fats Greene Orchestra was born.