Jazz for aficionados

The last time I saw Grant Green, I was kind of embarrassed because I didn’t recognize him; this was when he was performing and pushing his "Live At The Lighthouse" album.


https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=live+at+the+light+house+grant+green


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV-BNauQuH0

It was on the sidewalk in front of the club where he was performing. That was because the last time I saw Grant up close and personal, he had a full head of hair and he was a lot thinner, like the picture on this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Hjt7a_hVc


 Him and that group gave the most fantastic performance when they presented the "Live At The Lighthouse Album". I can say that the best live performance that I ever saw and heard from Grant Green was the last time I saw him.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmQoxng2YC8

O10 that is really cool that you saw Grant Green so many times and I was wondering did he have any personal conversations with you and if so is there anything you can tell us about the man.

Live at the Lighthouse gets many repeated listens over here.

Last night I was listening Sonny Stitt, so I played his music this morning as well, but on different albums and it happened that Grant Green plays there too.
Reading previous posts from Paul was nice coincidence.

This albums should not be neglected, when talking about funky side of Grant Green.

Don Patterson with Sonny Stitt (and Grant Green) 'Donny Brook'
https://youtu.be/Za_N4Hhbs_s

same line up album 'Brothers 4'
https://youtu.be/_mJ910_ZvN8

again same line up, but album is from Sonny Stitt /Soul People
https://youtu.be/LR8DctPXbb4

By the way, I like and have the S.Clark/G.Green album-compliation. Its not much you can do soundwise,it is what it is, aldo I prefer Blue Note before the later remasters, but there are some remasters that are quite good (and not so good) but, that could be said for 'original' editions (on cd) as well

PJW, I had a conversation with Grant during intermission on the sidewalk in front of the establishment where he was performing.

Someone came up to me during intermission and said Grant wanted to speak to me out front.



I have to tell another story in order to put that conversation into context.


My cousin was my best friend, he lived a charmed life; although he had his faults.

On his lunch hour, he would come into my front door, out the back door, over the fence, into the back door of the ladies house next door.

When it was time to go back to work; out her back door, over the fence, into my back door, out my front door, and back to work; he called this "His nooner"

After he died, after the funereal, after everyone had left, I was sitting on one end of the couch, and his bereaved wife was sitting on the other end. She turned to me and asked, "Did my husband have any other women."

With the straightest and most sincere face I could muster, I said, "Not to my knowledge".

She seemed so relieved, a serene look came over her face.


My reason for telling you all of this is that you got to know when to lie, and when to tell the truth.

Grant asked me a question about a person, I told him the truth. He reacted, "You're lying", turned and walked away.

There I was, left with tears. But long after, when I absorbed what had taken place, I realized, that when he was alone, Grant cried because of what I had told him.