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Grant Green: Retrospective
by Scott Morrow
About five years ago, I heard guitarist Grant Green's "Ain't it Funky Now," a burnin' J.B. cover on Blue and Funky , a various artists Hammond organ compilation from Blue Note. I’d never heard anything like his honest, cutting tone – it rocked and funked like crazy. I hadn’t purchased much jazz, other than Miles and ...
Grant Green: Retrospective 1961-1966
by C. Andrew Hovan
While the history books will more than likely survey the lineage of jazz guitar by focusing on such technically dazzling plectrists as Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Kenny Burrell, a wider view with a focus on peripheral talents will likely support the fact that instrumental proficiency is but a mere part of the overall success of ...
Grant Green, Jr.: Introducing G.G.
by Joe Lazar
Soul Jazz is cheating. The recipe is tried and true: slick guitar, funky Rhodes and Hammond Organ, tight Drums and Bass, a full horn section. Music like this sounds good and makes folks happy with ease. It is also relatively formulaic. Such is the scenario for guitarist Grant Green, Jr.’s new album, Introducing G.G.. The selections ...
The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark
By Grant Green
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Disc One: 1. Airegin; 2. It Ain't Necessarily So; 3. I Concentrate on You; 4. The Things We Did Last Summer; 5. The Song is You; 6. Nancy (with the Laughing Face); 7. Airegin (Alt Tk); 8. On Green Dolphin Street; 9. Shadrack; 10. What is This Thing Called Love? Disc Two: 1. Moon River; 2. Gooden's Corner; 3. Two for One; 4. Oleo; 5. Little Girl Blue; 6. Tune Up; 7. Hip Funk; 8. My Favorite Things; 9. Oleo (Alt Tk).
Grant Green: The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark
by Reid Thompson
Just like rice and beans, Grant Green and Sonny Clark created a synergy that was more than the sum of its parts. Nowhere is that more apparent than on “The Complete Quartets," where there were no horns competing for solos. The elegant, laid-back style that characterizes these recordings was the one in which both Green and ...
Grant's First Stand
By Grant Green
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Miss Ann's Tempo, Lullaby of the Leaves, Blues for Willarene, Baby's Minor Lope, 'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do, A Wee Bit O' Green (40:00)
Grant Green: Grant's First Stand
by C. Andrew Hovan
Leaving his native St. Louis in 1959, guitarist Grant Green got his first big break appearing with tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest and made his recording debut on Forrest's All The Gin Is Gone. While in Chicago, he then appeared on organist Sam Lazar's Space Flight before hooking up with Lou Donaldson in New York. The rest ...
Grant Green: Talkin' About
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although it has now arrived posthumously, guitarist Grant Green is finally being recognized for the immense talent that he was. Through a recent biography and the active sampling of his ‘70s work by the acid jazz crowd, Green has become a hot commodity after the fact. The core of his most profound work is documented on ...
