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.
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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:
Born: 1935-06-06
Died: 1979-01-31
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Down Here On The Ground
by: Grant GreenDown here on the ground
It ain't no place for living
No, no, no
Down here on the ground
Watching the sparrows fly high
I watch the birds
As they make their wings
Flying solid free
How I wish it were me
But I'm down here on the ground
And I'm wanting something better
I'm down here on the ground
Wanting something more
One morning soon
I will find
Some wings on my mind
To take me high
So if you hear a sound
From down here on the ground
My friends
It's only me
Trying to fly
Trying to fly
I would love to fly
Because I'm tired of being
Down here on the ground
I'm tired of being
Down here on the ground, yeah
One morning soon
I gotta find
Some wings on my mind
Wings to take me high
So if you hear a sound
If you hear a sound
From down here on the ground
I said my friends
It's only me
I will be trying to fly
Trying to fly
Live a bird I would love to fly
Because I'm tired of being
Down here on the ground
Yes I'm tired of being
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