Grant Green

RADIO/PODCAST: rockwired.com's 'All New Jazzed and Blue - Profiles in Blues and Jazz' Profiles Grammy-Winning Baritone Saxophonist Gary Smulyan and His Latest Release "Smul's Paradise" 01/29/2012

Pat Martino: Undeniable – Live at Blues Alley – review 12/22/2011

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Sonny Stitt: Varitone Redux 12/20/2011

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Bernstein/Goldings/Stewart - Live at Smalls (Smalls Live, 2011) 11/30/2011

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Skip Heller - Homegoing (2002) 08/17/2011

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 ...more