Grant Green
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Biography
[Edit]A severely underrated player during his lifetime, Grant Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar. He combined an extensive foundation in R&B with a mastery of bebop and simplicity that put expressiveness ahead of technical expertise. Green was a superb blues interpreter, and while his later material was predominantly blues and R&B, he was also a wondrous ballad and standards soloist. He was a particular admirer of Charlie Parker, and his phrasing often reflected it.
Grant Green was born in St. Louis in 1935 (although many records during his lifetime incorrectly listed 1931). He learned his instrument in grade school from his guitar-playing father, and was playing professionally by the age of thirteen with a gospel group. He worked gigs in his home town and in East St. Louis, Illinois — playing in the '50s with Jimmy Forrest, Harry Edison, and Lou Donaldson — until he moved to New York in 1960 at the suggestion of Donaldson. Green told Dan Morgenstern in a Down Beat interview: "The first thing I learned to play was boogie-woogie. Then I had to do a lot of rock & roll. It's all blues, anyhow."
During the early '60s, both his fluid, tasteful playing in organ/guitar/drum combos and his other dates for Blue Note established Green as a star, though he seldom got the critical respect given other players. He collaborated with many organists, among them Brother Jack McDuff, Sam Lazar, Baby Face Willette, Gloria Coleman, Big John Patton, and Larry Young. He was off the scene for a bit in the mid-'60s, but came back strong in the late '60s and '70s. Green played with Stanley Turrentine, Dave Bailey, Yusef Lateef, Joe Henderson, Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and Elvin Jones.
Sadly, drug problems interrupted his career in the '60s, and undoubtedly contributed to the illness he suffered in the late '70s. Green was hospitalized in 1978 and died a year later. Despite some rather uneven LPs near the end of his career, the great body of his work represents marvelous soul-jazz, bebop, and blues.
Although he mentions Charlie Christian and Jimmy Raney as influences, Green always claimed he listened to horn players (Charlie Parker and Miles Davis) and not other guitar players, and it shows. No other player has this kind of single-note linearity (he avoids chordal playing). There is very little of the intellectual element in Green's playing, and his technique is always at the service of his music. And it is music, plain and simple, that makes Green unique.
Green's playing is immediately recognizable — perhaps more than any other guitarist. Green has been almost systematically ignored by jazz buffs with a bent to the cool side, and he has only recently begun to be appreciated for his incredible musicality. Perhaps no guitarist has ever handled standards and ballads with the brilliance of Grant Green. Mosaic, the nation's premier jazz reissue label, issued a wonderful collection The Complete Blue Note Recordings with Sonny Clark, featuring prime early '60s Green albums plus unissued tracks. Some of the finest examples of Green's work can be found there. ~ Michael Erlewine & Ron Wynn, Rovi
Collections
Title: 100 Best Of Blue Note
Title: 50 Best Of Blue Note
Title: Blue Bossa
Genre: Salsa, World Music, Latin, Pop
Title: The Birth Of Soul Jazz
Title: Natural Self: The Ritual
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Best Jazz 100 (CD3: Latin Jazz)
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: Blue Note Trip Vol. 01 (Maestro) (CD1) (Saturday Night)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Cafe Blue Note
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Jazz Essential Masterpieces (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Guitar
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Note Plays The Beatles
Title: Jazz Goes To The Beatles
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Note Trip 10 - Late Nights (CD1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Note Trip 10 - Early Mornings (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Mixtape - Jazz For Sunny Days
Genre: Jazz
Title: Dusty Fingers Volume 7
Genre: Soul, Jazz, Rock, World Music, Country, Pop, Funk, Instrumental
Title: Jazz Guitar Deluxe
Genre: Jazz
Title: Explosive Grooves
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Greatest Jazz Cover Up
Genre: Jazz
Title: Skunk Funk - Explosive Grooves
Genre: Jazz
Title: Down At The Jazz Club
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best Funky Jazz Of The 70's
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Most Amazing Jazz Guitarists
Genre: Jazz
Title: MasterGroove, Pt. 3
Title: MasterGroove, Pt. 5
Title: Samba Jazz Gems
Genre: Jazz, Samba, World Music, Bossanova
Title: 24 Hours Of Jazz
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Blue Note Trip - Somethin' Old
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Jazz: Summer Barbecue
Genre: Jazz
Title: Suave Bossa Nova
Title: Blue Juice Volume 3
Title: Phapsody Jazz (CD2)
Title: The Blue Box: Blue Note's Best, (CD3)
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Blue Box: Blue Note's Best, (CD4)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Afro Cuban Highlights
Genre: Latin
Title: Bossanova Highlights
Genre: Bossanova
Title: Funky Jazz Highlights
Genre: Jazz, Funk, Smooth Jazz
Title: Winging The Blues
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Swinging The Blues
Title: Chillout Jazz Organ
Genre: Funk
Title: Jazz On The Road Route 5 (50 Original Tracks Remastered)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Latino - The Hottest Latin Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Le Meilleur De Blue Note
Genre: Jazz
Title: 30 Soulful Moments In Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Pure... Disco / Funk (CD2)
Title: Seasonal Jazz Essentials
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: The Most Essential Jazz Strings
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: The Most Essential Jazz Organ
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Kings Of Classic Jazz, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best Latin Jazz Album In The World... Ever (CD1)
Genre: Latin
Title: The Best Latin Jazz Album In The World... Ever! (CD2)
Genre: Latin
Title: Most Wanted Acid Jazz
Genre: Jazz, Acid Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Funky Jazz Keyboard
Genre: Jazz
Title: Lifestyle2 - Bar Jazz Vol. 1 (CD1)
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Lounge
Title: Midnight Jazz Sessions, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Gods Of Jazz Guitar
Genre: Jazz, Instrumental
Title: 100 Jazz Classics & Greatest Jazz Hits (CD1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Most Wanted Afro Cuban Jazz
Genre: World Music, Latin
Title: Legendary Funky Jazz
Title: Legendary Hard Bop
Featuring albums
Title: A Tribute To Antonio Carlos Jobim
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Latin, Bossanova