Grant Green



Grant Green (St. Louis (Missouri), 1935 - June 6, New York, 31 January 1979) was a jazzguitarist and composer.

Green played different styles including hard bop, soul jazz , bebopand blues. During the bebop era, he a reintroduction of the guitar as a solo instrument in jazz. Of Green is that he was a great admirer of Charlie Christian and Charlie Parker was. ==Musical career[Edit] == After having made his debut in 1959, as a guitarist in the quintet by Jimmy Forrest, Lou Donaldson Grant came at the invitation of to New York in 1960. Its base in the R & B, combined with his skills in the bebop and its simplicity prefers technical expertise, that expression makes Grant to a versatile guitarist: bebop, R & B, blues, standard works, ballads, Boogie Woogie, jazz funk, acid jazz, were among his executed styles.

Especially in the first 5 years after his arrival in New York, Grant was a busy man. He played with Lou Donaldson, Stanley Turrentine, Baby Face Willette, Big John Patton,Brother Jack McDuff, Larry Young, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan and Herbie Hancock. As a result, he quickly became a celebrity among the jazz guitarists, so much thatGeorge Benson once said: After 1967 was Grant hardly active as a musician because of his drug addiction. As a result of his addiction he had to do with a fragile health. He began to play and record again in 1969, in which he also hit a new road. His works from 1969 are more commercially oriented, take its course to more funk-jazz and acid-jazz-oriented music he made with men as Idris Muhammed, Reuben Wilson, Rusty Bryant, Charles Kynard, Neal Creque, Houston Person and Ronnie Foster. ==Criticisms[Edit] == Critics Michael Erlewine and Ron Wynn described him as[1]   : ==Important works[Edit] ==