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Grant Green (Paperback)
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Grant Green (Paperback)
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Loot Price R439
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Though serious jazz fans certainly recognize the brilliance of
guitarist Grant Green, his overall contributions to the genre were
sorely underrated during his own lifetime. Best known as a coveted
Blue Note Records session leader and sideman - he played on nine
Blue Note albums in 1961 alone - Green helped raise the art of jazz
guitar playing to new heights. Like his contemporary Wes
Montgomery, Green's driving, aggressive tone was simultaneously
fluid and eloquent. He moved freely from style to style, embracing
bop, gospel, blues, Latin, country, soul, and funk. In the late
'60s, Green forayed into pop jazz but was overshadowed on the
charts by more commercial players such as George Benson, who sang
as well as played. Throughout most of his brief life, Green battled
racial and religious barriers, as well as two failed marriages and
a drug habit. This book follows him from his St. Louis gospel and
blues roots to his heyday at New York's Blue Note Records; through
a subsequent period of musical flux; on the club circuit in
Detroit; and into eventual disillusionment, declining health, and
death in 1979 at age 43. While later Grant Green songs such as
"Down Here on the Ground" from the 1970 album Alive! have been
sampled by performers ranging from Madonna to A Tribe Called Quest,
the more classic 1963 album Idle Moments ranked Number 9 on Rolling
Stone's Alternative Music chart in 1994 - more than 30 years after
it was recorded. Such versatility and timelessness makes the short
life and career of this jazz guitar genius all the more
fascinating.
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