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Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer.
Recording prolifically and mainly for Blue Note Records as both leader and sideman, Green performed in the hard bop, soul jazz, bebop, and Latin-tinged idioms 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." Critic Dave Hunter described his sound as "lithe, loose, slightly bluesy and righteously groovy". He often performed in an organ trio, a small group with an organ and drummer.
Apart from guitarist Charlie Christian, Green's primary influences were saxophonists, particularly Charlie Parker, and his approach was therefore almost exclusively linear rather than chordal. He thus rarely played rhythm guitar except as a sideman on albums led by other musicians. The simplicity and immediacy of Green's playing, which tended to avoid chromaticism, derived from his early work playing rhythm and blues and, although at his best he achieved a synthesis of this style with bop, he was essentially a blues guitarist and returned almost exclusively to this style in his later career.
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Albums
Matador
Nigeria
Solid
The Main Attraction
Green Blues
Iron City!
The Final Comedown
Visions
Green is Beautiful
Carryin' On
Street of Dreams
Talkin' About
Idle Moments
Feelin' the Spirit
Oleo
Remembering
Gooden's Corner
Grantstand
Green Street
Space Flight
Popular Songs
- Funky Blues
- My Babe
- Big Willie
- Space Flight
- Mad Lad
- Dig a Little Deeper
- Gigi Blues
- Ruby
- Caramu
- We Don't Know
- Grandstand
- Idle Moments
- Nomad
- Django
- Jean de Fleur
- Sonnymoon for Two
- He's a Real Gone Guy
- Hey There
- Blues for Juanita
- Grenada
- Red River Valley
- Tumbling Tumbleweeds
- Wagon Wheels
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- On Top of Old Smokey
- I Don't Want Anybody to Give Me Nothing
- Cease the Bombing, Part 1
- Sweet Slumber
- For All We Know
- I Wanna Be Loved