Artist
Grant Green
Grant Green is a jazz artist from St. Louis, Missouri, USA. 86 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · St. Louis, Missouri, USA · Best jazz albums
- 86
- Releases
- 1961–2025
- Active years
Artist
Grant Green is a jazz artist from St. Louis, Missouri, USA. 86 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · St. Louis, Missouri, USA · Best jazz albums
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Visions
1971
Solid
1979
Street of Dreams
1964
Matador
1990
Green is Beautiful
1970
Carryin' On
1969
Nigeria
1981
The Main Attraction
1976
Am I Blue?
1963
His Majesty King Funk
1965
Goin' West
1969
Shades of Green
1972
Oleo
1962
The Latin Bit
1962
Gooden's Corner
1961
Feelin' the Spirit
1963
Talkin' About
1964
Iron City!
1972
Grantstand
1961
Grant's First Stand
1961
Grant Green: Blue Moods & Grooves (1962)
2025
clair de lune (Live Paris '69)
2024
Grant Green Icon Of Jazz Series
2023
The Classic Years, Vol. 1
2021
The Classic Years, Vol. 2
2021
Plays the R&B Hits
2020
Little Jazz Birds
2019
Slick! (Live at Oil Can Harry's)
2018
Milestones of Jazz Legends: More Jazz Guitar, Vol. 7
2018
Goes Latin
2017
Mellow Melody
2017
Born to Be Blue
2015
Essential Hits
2014
If I Had You
2014
Tempo
2014
Love Walked In
2014
Grant Green & Friends, Vol. 1
2014
The Song Is You
2014
Retrospective
2014
Back to the Future
2014
Airegin
2014
Classic Green, Vol. 2: Reaching Out
2013
Reaching Out
2013
First Recording
2013
Best Jazz Players
2013
'61 Jazz Explosion
2013
50 Grant Green's Greatest Hits (Original Recordings Digitally Remastered)
2013
Jazz Guitar Favorites '61-'62
2013
Green Street (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
2013
Cool Blues (Remastered)
2012
Standards
2012
Green Street
2012
Sunday Morning - EP
2011
Jazz Guitar Classics
2011
Round About Midnight
2011
Sunday Mornin'
2011
Grant's First Stand (Rudy Van Gelder Edition / Remastered 2009)
2011
Grant's First Stand - EP
2011
Green Street - EP
2011
First Stand (Remastered)
2011
Classic Green, Vol. 1: Sunday Mornin'
2011
Essential Jazz Masters
2010
Finest In Jazz
2007
Live At The Club Mozambique (Live)
2006
Mellow Madness: The Original Jam Master (Vol. 3)
2005
Ain't It Funky Now! The Original Jam Master (Vol. 1)
2005
For The Funk Of It: The Original Jam Master (Vol. 2)
2005
Blues For Lou
2004
The Matador
2003
The Final Comedown
2003
Ballads
2002
First Session
2001
Alive! (Live At The Cliche' Lounge, Newark, New Jersey, 1970 / Remastered 2000)
2000
Blue Break Beats
1998
Live At The Lighthouse (Live)
1998
I Want To Hold Your Hand
1997
The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark
1997
The Best of Grant Green, Volume 1
1993
Alive!
1993
The Best Of Grant Green
1993
The Best Of Grant Green (Vol. 1)
1993
Easy
1978
Green Blues
1973
The Sounds of Grant Green
1965
Idle Moments
1963
Remembering
1961
Grant Green (June 6, 1935, St. Louis, Missouri – January 31, 1979, New York; some sources erroneously give his year of birth as 1931) was a 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…