Grant Green
Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer. Green played various styles including hard bop, bebop, soul jazz and blues. During the bebop period he created a reintroduction of the guitar as a solo instrument in jazz. Green is known that he was a great admirer of Charlie Christian and Charlie Parker.
Albums:
1960-61 First Session (released in 2001)
1961 Grant's First Stand
1961 Green Street
1961 Sunday Mornin'
1961 Grantstand
1961 Remembering (released in 1980 )
1961 Gooden's Corner (released in 1980 )
1962 Nigeria (released in 1980 )
1962 Oleo (released in 1980 )
1962 Born to Be Blue (released in 1985 )
1962 The Latin Bit
1962 Goin' West (released in 1969 )
1962 Feelin' the Spirit
1963 Blues for Lou (released in 1999 )
1963 Am I Blue
1963 Idle Moments (released in 1964 )
1964 Matador (released in 1979 )
1964 Solid (released in 1979 )
1964 Talkin' About!
1964 Street of Dreams
1965 I Want to Hold Your Hand
1969 Carryin' On
1970 Green Is Beautiful
1970 Alive!
1971 Live at Club Mozambique (released in 2006)
1971 Visions
1971 Shades of Green
1971 The Final Comedown (released in 1972 )
1972 Live at The Lighthouse
1961 Reaching Out -- Black Lion Records
1965 His Majesty King Funk -- Verve
1967 Iron City --- Cobblestone (Released in 1972)
1976 The Main Attraction -- Kudu
1978 Easy - Versatile
GRANT GREEN - Idle Moments
1x LP 180g 33rpm
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( 1964 ) 2009 Blue Note reissue on 180g LP =The third-best jazz guitar album you’ll ever hear. Idle Moments is a 1964 jazz album by guitarist Grant Green. best known for the title piece, a slow composition in C minor which lasts for nearly 15 minutes.
GRANT GREEN - Oleo ( With Sonny Clark) =180g vinyl=
1x LP 180 gr.33rpm
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1962 - 2015 EU reissue on 180gm vinyl -This is an another excellent album with Green and pianist Sonny Clark, who along with Sam Jones on bass and Louis Hayes on drums make the foursome. The entire album is fine with "My Favorite Things," an old favorite
GRANT GREEN - Boin to be Blue ( w. Ike Quebec) =180g vinyl=
1x LP 180 gr.33rpm
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1961 - 2013 EU reissue on 180gm vinyl +bonus tr. - With the uptempo selections as well as ballads like "My One and Only Love" and Mel Torme's "Born to Be Blue. Grant Green is one of the great jazz guitarists of the 1960s, with a clear tone and a unique e
