Grant Green
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Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) 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." 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.
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Discography
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As leader
- 1961: First Session (Blue Note)**
- 1961: Grant's First Stand (Blue Note)
- 1961: Reaching Out (Black Lion)
- 1961: Green Street (Blue Note)
- 1961: Sunday Mornin' (Blue Note)
- 1961: Grantstand (Blue Note)
- 1961: Remembering (Blue Note Japan) Reissue as Standards
- 1961: Gooden's Corner (Blue Note Japan)**
- 1962: Nigeria (Blue Note Japan)**
- 1962: Oleo (Blue Note Japan)**
- 1962: Born to Be Blue (Blue Note)**
- 1962: The Latin Bit (Blue Note)
- 1962: Goin' West (Blue Note)
- 1962: Feelin' the Spirit (Blue Note)
- 1963: Blues for Lou (Blue Note)**
- 1963: Am I Blue? (Blue Note)
- 1963: Idle Moments (Blue Note)
- 1964: Matador (Blue Note Japan)**
- 1964: Solid (Blue Note)**
- 1964: Talkin' About! (Blue Note)
- 1964: Street of Dreams (Blue Note)
- 1965: I Want to Hold Your Hand (Blue Note)
- 1965: His Majesty King Funk (Verve)
- 1967: Iron City (Cobblestone)
- 1969: Carryin' On (Blue Note)
- 1970: Green Is Beautiful (Blue Note)
- 1970: Alive! (Blue Note)
- 1971: Live at Club Mozambique (Blue Note)**
- 1971: Visions (Blue Note)
- 1971: Shades of Green (Blue Note)
- 1971: The Final Comedown (Soundtrack) (Blue Note)
- 1972: Live at The Lighthouse (Blue Note)
- 1976: The Main Attraction (Kudu)
- 1978: Easy (Versatile)
Green recorded more than twenty sessions as a leader for Blue Note between 1960-72. Many of them were not released until years after the recording dates, as shown by **
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As sideman
1959
- Jimmy Forrest - All the Gin Is Gone (Delmark)
- Jimmy Forrest - Black Forrest (Delmark)
1960
- Sam Lazar - Space Flight (Argo)
- Willie Dixon - Blues Roots Series, Vol. 12 (Chess)
1961
- Lou Donaldson - Here 'Tis (Blue Note)
- Baby Face Willette - Face to Face (Blue Note)
- Baby Face Willette - Stop and Listen (Blue Note)
- Brother Jack McDuff - The Honeydripper (Prestige)
- Stanley Turrentine - Up at Minton's, Vol. 1 + 2 (Blue Note)
- Hank Mobley - Workout (Blue Note)
- Horace Parlan - Up and Down (Blue Note)
- The Complete Blue Note Horace Parlan Sessions (Mosaic)
- Brother Jack McDuff - Steppin' Out (Prestige)
- Brother Jack McDuff - Goodnight, It's Time To Go (Prestige)
- Stanley Turrentine - Z.T.'s Blues (Blue Note)
- Lou Donaldson - A Man with a Horn (Blue Note)
- Sonny Red/Grant Green/Barry Harris - The Mode (Jazzland)
- Sonny Red - Images (Jazzland)
- Ike Quebec - Blue and Sentimental (Blue Note)
1962
- Joe Carroll - Man with a Happy Sound (Charlie Parker Records)
- Dodo Greene - My Hour of Need (Blue Note)
- Don Wilkerson - Elder Don (Blue Note)
- Lou Donaldson - The Natural Soul (Blue Note)
- Don Wilkerson - Preach Brother! (Blue Note)
1963
- Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious! (Blue Note)
- Jimmy Smith - I'm Movin' On (Blue Note)
- Jimmy Smith - Special Guests (Blue Note Japan)
- Booker Ervin - Back from the Gig (Blue Note)
- Herbie Hancock - My Point of View (Blue Note)
- Horace Parlan - Happy Frame of Mind (Blue Note)
- "Big" John Patton - Along Came John (Blue Note)
- Gloria Coleman/Pola Roberts - Soul Sisters (Impulse)
- Harold Vick - Steppin' Out! (Blue Note)
- Harold Vick - Our Miss Brooks c/w Vicksville (Blue Note)
- "Big" John Patton - Blue John (Blue Note)
- Don Wilkerson - Shoutin' (Blue Note)
- George Braith - Two Souls in One (Blue Note)
- Mary Lou Williams - Black Christ of the Andes (Saba/MPS)
- George Braith - Soul Stream (Blue Note)
- Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker (Blue Note)
1964
- Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land (Blue Note)
- George Braith - Extension (Blue Note)
- "Big" John Patton - The Way I Feel (Blue Note)
- Larry Young - Into Somethin' (Blue Note)
- Donald Byrd - I'm Tryin' to Get Home (Blue Note)
1965
- Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis - Joe's Blues (Verve)
- Grassella Oliphant - The Grass Is Greener (Atlantic)
- "Big" John Patton - Oh, Baby! (Blue Note)
- Lou Donaldson - Musty Rusty (Cadet)
- Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis - Wings and Things (Verve)
- "Big" John Patton - Let 'Em Roll (Blue Note)
1966
- George Braith - Laughing Souls (Prestige)
- "Big" John Patton - Got a Good Thing Goin' (Blue Note)
- Art Blakey - Hold On, I'm Coming (Limelight)
- Stanley Turrentine - Rough 'N Tumble (Blue Note)
1969
- Rusty Bryant - Returns (Prestige)
- Charles Kynard - The Soul Brotherhood (Prestige)
- Reuben Wilson - Love Bug (Blue Note)
- Don Patterson - Brother-4 (Prestige)
- Don Patterson - Donnybrook (Prestige)
- Don Patterson - Tune Up! (Prestige)
1970
- Charles Kynard - Afro-Disiac (Prestige)
- Fats Theus - Black Out (CTI)
- Houston Person - Person to Person! (Prestige)
1973
- Houston Person - The Real Thing (Eastbound)
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