Grant Green
Sign in to saveAmerican jazz guitarist and composer (1935–1979)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Jake's Hunting Adventure in the Woods
- Best of Grant Green
- Slick!
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1935-06-06
- Active to
- 1979-01-31
americancool jazzhard bopjazzjazz-funklatin jazz
Discography
- Grant Green
- Space Flight1960
- Grant’s First Stand1961
- Grantstand1961
- Green Street1961
- Reaching Out1961
- Sunday Mornin’1961
- Am I Blue1963
- Feelin’ the Spirit1963
- The Latin Bit1963
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- Listeners
- 484,399
- Total plays
- 5,085,564
Tags
jazzjazz guitarguitarfunkgroove
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Grant
- Family name
- Green
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- St. Louis
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- jazz
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Blue Note
Show 5 more facts
- date of death
- 1979-01-31
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- date of birth
- 1935-06-06
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