Grant Green
Hard bop, Musical Artist
1935 – 1979
Who was Grant Green?
Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer.
Recording prolifically and mainly for Blue Note Records 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. 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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- Born
- Jun 6, 1935
St. Louis - Also known as
- Green, Grant
- Religion
- Nation of Islam
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 31, 1979
New York City - Resting place
- Greenwood Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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