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Grant Green - great jazz guitarists |
 | | 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. |
| | Green was a superb blues interpreter, and his later material was predominantly blues and RandB, though he was also a wondrous ballad and standards soloist. |
| | Green has been almost systematically ignored by jazz buffs with a bent to the cool side, and he has only recently begun to be appreciated for his incredible musicality. |
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