Grant Green
USA
Born: 06 June 1931
Died: 31 January 1979
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Soul Jazz, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz/Groove, Bop, Jazz-Funk, Fusion
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Grant Green was born in St. Louis on June 6, 1931, learned his instrument in grade school from his guitar-playing father and was playing professionally by the age of thirteen with a gospel group. He worked gigs in his home town and in East St. Louis, IL, until he moved to New York in 1960 at the suggestion of Lou Donaldson. Green told Dan Morgenstern in a Down Beat interview: "The first thing I learned to play was boogie-woogie. Then I had to do a lot of rock & roll. It's all blues, anyhow." His extensive foundation in R&B combined with a mast...
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