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Grant Green
Meet the artist
A guitarist who helped define Blue Note’s golden age, known for blues-rooted, single-note lines. He favors a clearly singing line over thick chordal textures.
Blues-inflected phrases unfold almost like horn solos. With organ and drums, small variations deepen the pleasure of a repeated groove; in quieter music, space between notes becomes expressive. The understated sound remains strongly individual. Soul jazz's accessibility and the detail of improvisation meet in a particularly inviting gateway through the guitar.
Where to start listening
Follow individual guitar notes as if they were words in a song. In the slower passages, notice the rhythmic pleasure created by leaving room between phrases.
1965
1961
Years follow the Atlas catalogue. Recording dates, original release dates and digital reissue dates may differ.