Grant Green Thrift Store Find

[Canard]

I went out with my son yesterday to meet an old high school friend for lunch at a funky little diner in a funky area of downtown. There was a thrift store across the street. My son and I were quite early, so my son insisted that we go check out the thrift store.

I was initially reluctant, but my son's persistence won out, luckily for me. I found this 2 CD Grant Green compilation for a couple of bucks. Sweet!

Among the MONSTERS of Jazz guitar, Green is a King Kong or Godzilla.

2 hrs and 15 min.

 

[shihan]

Grant Green was incapable of playing a bad note. Everything He did was worth listening to carefully . One of my all time favourites. Good score!

 

[Uke]

I went out with my son yesterday to meet an old high school friend for lunch at a funky little diner in a funky area of downtown. There was a thrift store across the street. My son and I were quite early, so my son insisted that we go check out the thrift store.

I was initially reluctant, but my son's persistence won out, luckily for me. I found this 2 CD Grant Green compilation for a couple of bucks. Sweet!

Among the MONSTERS of Jazz guitar, Green is a King Kong or Godzilla.

2 hrs and 15 min.

I've owned this album for years, and have about worn it out. Great stuff -- lucky you!

 

[walrus]

This compilation album is one of my favorites:

 

[Minnesota Flats]

He was one of the guitar players that first got me interested in listening to jazz. I found several of his early, solo LPs on Blue Note, some of which also featured a young organ player named Roosevelt "Baby Face" Willette. That was back when Green was mostly playing an ES-330. I was living in the SF East Bay and didn't have any money so I picked lots of jazz LPs up for cheap in used record stores on Telegraph and Shattuck Avenues in Berkeley.

Lots of great jazz was churned out on the Blue Note, Riverside and Prestige labels back then. Through them I became aware of guitar players like Green, Kenny Burrell, Tal Farlow, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, "Boogaloo" Joe Jones, George Benson (with Jack McDuff), Joe Pass, Billy Butler (with Bill Doggett), etc..