Grant Green - Wives and Lovers ~bonus track on the Blue Note album SOLID Grant Green (guitar) James Spaulding (alto saxophone) Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone) McCoy Tyner (piano) Bob Cranshaw (bass) Elvin Jones (drums)
Grant Green Bio
Grant Green (St. Louis, Missouri, June 6, 1935 – New York, January 31, 1979; some sources erroneously give the birth year as 1931) was a jazz guitarist and composer. Recording prolifically and almost exclusively for Blue Note Records (as both leader and sideman) Green performed well in hard bop, soul jazz, bebop and Latin-tinged settings 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 .