Grant Green
Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer.
Recording prolifically and mainly for Blue Note Records (as both leader and sideman) 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.
Grant Green (disambiguation)
Grant Green (1935–1979) was a jazz guitarist.
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Grant Green (baseball)
Grant Thomas Green (born September 27, 1987) is an American professional baseball second baseman who is in the San Francisco Giants organization. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Green previously attended the University of Southern California (USC) and played college baseball for the USC Trojans.
High school career
Green played baseball at Canyon High School in Anaheim, California. As a high school sophomore, Green batted .430 (31-for-72) with eight doubles and 22 RBI. In his junior season, he batted .455 (40-for-88) with three home runs, 30 RBI and 14 stolen bases, a performance he duplicated as a senior when he batted .453 with four home runs, 22 RBI, and 14 stolen bases. Green earned first team honors from the California Interscholastic Federation and the Orange County Register. After his senior season, he was the 14th-round draft choice of the San Diego Padres, but he opted to attend the University of Southern California (USC) instead.
Alive! (Grant Green album)
Alive! is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring a performance recorded at the Cliche Lounge in Newark, New Jersey in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label. The album was Green's first official live recording. The CD reissue added three bonus tracks.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Alive! is the hardest funk LP Grant Green recorded during the later phase of his career... this is the most convincing and consistent Green had been as a funkster and, while nearly all of his albums from the early '70s feature at least some worthwhile material for acid jazz and beat-sampling junkies, Alive! is probably the best place to start".
Track listing
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ALBUMS
- Cool Blues released: 2012
- Blue Note TSF released: 2010
- Shades of Green released: 2009
- Visions released: 2009
- First Recordings released: 2007
- Easy released: 2007
- Organ Trio and Quartet released: 2007
- The Finest in Jazz released: 2007
- Live at Club Mozambique released: 2006
- The Original Jam Master, Volume Three: Mellow Madness released: 2005
- The Original Jam Master, Volume Two: For the Funk of It released: 2005
- The Original Jam Master, Volume One: Ain't It Funky Now! released: 2005
- Grantstand released: 2003
- Ballads released: 2002
- Retrospective 1961-1966 released: 2002
- First Session released: 2001
- First Session released: 2001
- Blues For Lou released: 1999
- Idle Moments released: 1999
- Standards released: 1998
- Blue Breakbeats released: 1998
- Street of Dreams released: 1998
- Jazz Profile: Grant Green released: 1997
- The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark released: 1997
- The Latin Bit released: 1996
- Sunday Mornin' released: 1996
- The Best of Grant Green, Volume 2 released: 1996
- Green Street released: 1995
- Green is Beautiful released: 1994
- The Best of Grant Green, Volume 1 released: 1993
- Street Funk & Jazz Grooves: The Best of Grant Green released: 1993
- Matador released: 1993
- Alive! released: 1993
- Born to Be Blue released: 1989
- Reaching Out released: 1986
- Nigeria released: 1981
- Solid released: 1979
- The Main Attraction released: 1976
- Green Blues released: 1973
- The Final Comedown released: 1972
- Iron City! released: 1972
- Live at the Lighthouse released: 1972
- Goin' West released: 1969
- Carryin' On released: 1969
- His Majesty King Funk released: 1965
- Talkin' About released: 1964
- Am I Blue? released: 1963
- Feelin' the Spirit released: 1963
- Oleo released: 1962
- The Latin Bit released: 1962
- Remembering released: 1961
- Gooden's Corner released: 1961
- Grant's First Stand released: 1961
- I Want to Hold Your Hand released:
