The Guitars Of Grant Green: A Short History
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Nice work- Grant Green is one of my favourite jazz guitarists.
Thanks Dan
Absolutely brilliant thank you bro .
Thanks bro for watching!
Thanks! Green is definitely one of the all time greats.
I agree
Great guitarist!
I agree Dan
Interesting about the ES 330, being fully hollow; I didn't know that. Grant Green has been one of my favorite jazz guitarists for a long time. He combines the earthiness of the blues with the sophistication of bebop so we'll. BTW, his hometown is pronounced like Saint Lewis in American English. Nicely done!
Amen and thanks for the correct pronunciation!
Excellent work. That photo of him and Herbie Hancock might have been taken during the recording of "Feelin' the Spirit," his gospel record and my personal favorite.
Thanks Jeffrey
And what a fantastic album. I love Grant Green, but Herbie's playing seems to stand out and above. Great album.
Thank you Ramon. As guitar players and on-lookers we appreciate the research and time you put into all these Guitar History videos.
This one is another that shows from humble beginnings, how guitarist evolve through their choice of instruments to explore and refine their sound, technique and direction. Grant Green a fascinating example.
One thing I've learnt as an old geezer who's spent far too much domestic cash on the instrument trail (albeit highly enjoyable) is ultimately it's not necessarily about money, headstock or quantity, more about playing with others, keeping the fingers picking, still enjoying this amazing instrument while steadily progressing.
The one thing I forever remind myself and reassure students is we are all somewhere on the ladder of ability, and from perhaps the greatest of them all,
"How good do you need to be?".
Peter Green.
Great comment bro thanks so much!
Thanks for all the hard work in putting this together Ramon. So great to have more info on Grant Green available!
Pleasure
Good vid ! You missed one that's on quite a few records, especially the organ dates with Big John Patton: A Les Paul gold top with p90s. There's a picture of Grant with it in the Patton mosaic booklet. Goes to show he could make anything sound like him...
Thanks for your work, Love the Guitar Bio's!
Pleasure Billy
It's like you read my mind, Mr. Goose! I've been listening to Idle Moments no stop, only hearing for the first time about 6 months ago. It's great to learn a bit about his guitars. Thanks a bunch!
Fantastic Richard! That's great to hear - thanks.
Thanks, Ramon, for the tip on the 1969 Live in Paris concert.
pleasure bro
I'll never play as good as him, but I'll keep listening and playing along, as I've never heard a more inspirational guitarist. He simply gets me to play.
Great video, Ramon! Thank you!
Excellent, you know your stuff, going to check out these guitars.
A few decades ago I was fortunate to find an exact mate to Green's D'Aquisto New Yorker at a guitar show. There were two late '60s - early '90's tobacco burst D'Aquisto New Yorkers at a well known guitar dealer's table, one which was so mint as to seem to have hardly ever been played, the other structurally in good shape, but clearly having been gigged for many hundreds of hours in heavily smoke-filled clubs. The stain of nicotine residue and who knows what else was thick and yellow all over it. However, it seemed to glow with kind of charm, a bit of magic if you will that only well-played and well-loved instruments give forth.
Well, I went with the dealer to a quiet room and played them both. While I like the music very much, I'm not a jazz guy. I play blues and rock and folk, and stuff that has no name (what I like best) on guitar. No matter they didn't care. They both had a new, identical set of strings on them.
The mint one was very tight sounding and feeling and had obviously not yet been broken in. This was a vicious cycle for this guitar. Because no one hardly ever played it, it was not so pleasant to listen to or to play, so no one ever played it and...
I mean, it was still one of Jimmies' guitars, so it was, even as it was, better sounding and playing than 99.999% of all other similar guitars (even, I hate but have to say, Signore D' Angelico's musical works of art). Still, it did not touch me at all. It was like an unsatisfying lover, it took my touch but gave back little.
The stained, played-to-death one on the other hand... well, you know. It was another beast entirely. With only the merest urging it sang and throbbed and whispered its little heart out. It actually made me sound good, like I knew what I was doing (a low bar). It was so effortless to play that I had to look to be sure that it wasn't playing itself.
Also, it had an old DeArmond, flat, floating pickup with its mounting bracket screwed to the bass side end of the neck in the fashion of many electrified archtop guitars. The volume and tone controls were mounted on the pickguard, Grant Green Style, except both knobs were clear.
While it was heavily discounted because of the staining, etc., it still cost a lot, even then. I had more than sufficient money in my and my wife's bank account, but the expenditure of a good chunk of it for a guitar required spousal approval, for sure. Also, I was concerned with its appearance. It really had been in the trenches. I thought that while I appreciated it as what it was, regardless of its appearance, at a later sale of it, if ever, it might not meet with so much loving approbation as I had for it.
Before calling home and if all went well there, pulling the trigger on it, with permission, I took it to the table of a very dear long-time friend who was then, and still is one of the greatest luthiers. One look and he knew exactly what it was, and a second look at its condition told him in advance what I was going to ask him.
"Sure, I can get this guitar looking pretty close to new, well, at least a lot closer to new than it looks now. She's just been in some pretty smokey rooms for too long, but with a little gentle and loving care, she'll clean up nicely."
The call home was just as I expected it to be. My wife, understanding me better than I understand myself, told me to go ahead, if that's what my heart told me to do. Zeus bless her.
I bought it.
My luthier friend took it from me right at the show, and in a few weeks it was ready. I went his shop in anticipation of it perhaps not looking quite as good as I hoped, but then, I remembered, he's an artist as much as a master craftsman who knew Jimmy D very well and has a deep abiding love for these instruments. I knew that he wouldn't give it back to me until it was as good as it could be.
To end the suspense, it was fabulous. He had left a little of the stain on the headstock inlay as a memorial to its hard-gigging days. The exquisite D'Aquisto finish all around was clean but with the slightest subtle patina that only comes from having been around for a while.
Of course, he set it up perfectly and when I played it at his shop the first time after the cleanup, it sang even stronger and sweeter than before. It was almost telepathic in "knowing" what I wanted it to do and it purred contentedly like a rescued kitten, as if it inwardly appreciated having all that muck taken off it and could now breathe and resonate freely, just as its creator intended.
I fully understand why Grant Green did not put his down for days after getting it. When I pick it up to play, I never want to put it down, either.
Thanks, always good to learn about stuff outside your norm. 👍Respect to you. Ramon
Thank you bro
Excellent, i love Grant Green
Fantastic Ramon... love the fact that he played that ES-330 early on...
Cheerios, mate
pleasure bro!
Thanks. Great video
Thanks
Brilliant video Ramon . I hadn't heard of him using a Strat before. I need to check out more of his records. 👍
Pleasure Shaun it was great to do it
amazing
When I saw him he had the daquisto with the big humbucking sized Lawrence pickup..he played loud through a big gibson amp..no feedback!
So cool thanks for this
Very cool.. thank you :)
I think closest relative to the ES-330 is the Epiphone Casino.
You can also look at the Stanford CR Thinline 30
Very cool and important artist....great episode
Thank you
This is so Great - Thank You very much ! 😃
my pleasure Jimmy
Excellent work
Many thanks
thanks
Pleasure
Awesome job!
Thank you 🙏
@@TheGuitarShow
Not
"awesome"
or
"excellent work"
It always astounds me how people might Praise something but FAIL to help others even find it..
Very oblivious, selfish or just disconnected. .
Giving a EXACT video title AND CHANNEL would be elementary to me if I was telling people how it is one of my all time favorite videos and that they should watch it.
But that notion just doesnt cross your type of mind...
Sad
@@AMEER-114- happy new Ameer I’ll try to do some more docs on jazz guitar players soon
@@TheGuitarShow
The proper response would've been to give the title and channel of the vid you raved about
@@AMEER-114- I can’t remember I’d have to watch it again it was so long ago that I made it. Be happy that I did as there is little on Grant Green!
Guitarist I never Heard off .
Hi William, I love both Greens.
Thanks for this Ramon, Love Grant Green, here's another video from 1969 Paris, with Kenny Burrell, and Barney Kessell, with Larry Ridley on bass and Don Lamond on Drums. Including the 2 videos you mentioned, these are the only 3 videos I've ever seen of him, and these 2 from Paris have only been released recently, for the longest time only the short vid of the 3 of them at Ronnie Scott's was all the Grant Green that was out there. czcams.com/video/_4jMQNJFPO4/video.html
Many thanks Chris
never heard this dude before?
Ahhh he's the best!