Grant Green

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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

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:

"Everyone wanted to sound like Grant!"

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

Critics Michael Erlewine and Ron Wynn described him as :

[1]

A severely underrated player during his lifetime, Grant Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar ... Green's playing is immediately recognizable--perhaps more than any other guitarist.

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Important works

Album	Year	Cooperation	Tag
All The Gin Is Gone/Blackforrest	1959	Jimmy Forrest Quintet	Delmark Records
Space Flight	1960	Sam Lazar Quartet	Argo/Chess
First Session	1960		Blue Note Records
Here ' Tis	1961	Lou Donaldson Quartet	Blue Note Records
Grant's First Stand	1961		Blue Note Records
Face To Face	1961	"Baby Face" Willette Quartet	Blue Note Records
The Honeydripper	1961	Brother Jack McDuff Quartet	Prestige Records
Up At Minton's	1961	Stanley Turrentine Quartet	Blue Note Records
Workout	1961	Hank Mobley Quintet	Blue Note Records.
Stop And Listen	1961	"Baby Face" Willette Trio	Blue Note Records
Green Street	1961		Blue Note Records
Sunday Mornin	1961		Blue Note Records
Up And Down	1961	Horace Parlan Quintet	Blue Note Records
Steppin' Out	1961	Brother Jack McDuff Quartet	Prestige Records
Z.T. 's Blues	1961	Stanley Turrentine Quintet	Blue Note Records
The Fashion	1961	Sonny Red Quintet	Jazzland Records
Blue And Sentimental	1961	Ike Quebec Quartet	Blue Note Records
Green Blues	1961		Muse Records
Born to be Blue	1961		Blue Note Records
Grandstand	1961		Blue Note Records
The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark	1961, 1962		Blue Note Records
Standards	1961		Blue Note Records
The Latin Bit	1962		Blue Note Records
Feelin' The Spirit	1962		Blue Note Records
I'm Movin' On	1963	Jimmy Smith Trio	Blue Note Records
Am I Blue	1963		Blue Note Records
Idle Moments	1963		Blue Note Records
Happy Frame Of Mind	1963	Horace Parlan Sextet	Blue Note Records
Blues For Lou	1963		Blue Note Records
My Point Of View	1963	Herbie Hancock Sextet	Blue Note Records
Two Souls In One	1963	George Braith Quartet	Blue Note Records
Solid	1964		Blue Note Records
Search For The New Land	1964	Lee Morgan Sextet	Blue Note Records
Talkin' About	1964		Blue Note Records
Street of Dreams	1964		Blue Note Records
Into Somethin	1964	Larry Young Quartet	Blue Note Records
I Want To Hold Your Hand	1965		Blue Note Records
His Majesty King Funk	1965	Grant Green Quintet	Verve Records
Matador	1965		Blue Note Records
Alive!	1970		Blue Note Records
Visions	1971		Blue Note Records
Live at the Lighthouse	1972		Blue Note Records