Grant Green Biography, Grant Green Videos, Grant Green Similar artist, Grant Green Discography, Grant Green Tags
You are in : HOME : G : Grant Green :Grant Green
" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">get="_blank">http://i767.photobucket.com/albums/xx316/jaywilton/su
11-03-09: From Brasil to Blaxploitation
Old and new favorites dominate this week's new release round-up. Two smoking live sets from venerabl
Throwback Thursday: Jib & Sail
"One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind." - Inayat Khan Throwba
Bernard Purdie, Reuben Wilson, Grant Green, Jr., Bill Easley - 3
Tracks: 01: My Blues 02: Autumn Leaves 03: The Funkster Purdie, Wilson and Grant Green Jr. are back
Disc of the day: 10-05-09
Horace Parlan: Up & Down (Blue Note 65137) A lesser known Blue Note session brought to our attention
Biography Grant Green
Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979; some sources
erroneously give the birth year as 1931) was a jazz guitarist and composer.
Recording prolifically and almost exclusively for Blue Note Records (as
both leader and sideman) Green performed well in hard bop, soul jazz, bebop
and latin-tinged settings throughout his career. Critics Michael Erlewine
and Ron Wynn write, "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."[LINK:
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:p7ivadzkv8w8~T1] Erlewine,
Michael and Ron Wynn, "Grant Green" from Allmusic.com URL accessed January
26 2007
Biography Green was born on June 6, 1935 in St. Louis, MO. He first
performed in a professional setting at the age of 12. His early influences
were Charlie Christian and
