Grant Green

Grant Green played guitar like a horn player. He favoured clean, bluesy single-note lines over chords, with a gift for repeating a riff until it hypnotised, and that simplicity made him one of Blue Note's busiest guitarists of the early 60s.

Grant's First Stand, Green Street and Idle Moments showed his lyrical side, Feelin' the Spirit took on gospel, and Solid and Matador brought in members of John Coltrane's quartet. Later records like Alive! and Live at the Lighthouse went deep into funk, with long, grooving jams that hip hop producers would later mine for samples.