Grant Green
jazz guitarist
Grant Green's Gear
"You’d be guessing all this chocolatey tone issues from a deep-bodied acoustic-electric Gibson archtop … and you’d be wrong. From his arrival in New York City in 1960 until the mid ’60s, Grant Green played a Gibson ES-330. It’s hollow-bodied, but a thinline double-cutaway model with the body lines of the ES-335 and a rim depth of just around 1 3/4 inches. Gibson had introduced its first thinline archtops in 1955, in the form of the ES-350T and the Byrdland, and brought the radical new ES-335 to the line in 1958. With a solid block through the center of the body to combat feedback and aid sustain and a neck joint around the 20th fret, the ES-335 was an instrument with jazz roots, but employed new features that would appeal even more to rock, country, and blues players."
http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/Get-That-Tone_-Green-Street-er.aspx
During his recording sessions (as a sideman and leader), Grant used two different amps that Rudy Van Gelder has in his studio. These amps were a tweed Fender Deluxe, as well as various Ampeg Models. Here, during the recording of Idle Moments, it looks like he is using an Ampeg Jet.
Jazz guitarist Grant Green is known to have used a Gibson L-7, as detailed on the Jazzguitar website under "Grant Green's Guitars And Amps."
Grant Green is seen playing an Epiphone Emperor Regent in a user-uploaded photo from Karavangallery, dated 1969.
Grant Green is seen using a D' Aquisto New Yorker Archtop guitar, as captured in a photograph from JazzTimes.
Producer Steve Hoffman has stated his use of the LA-2A for Green.
My Teletronix LA-2A, ganged for stereo or mono reproduction via the handy toggle switch in the center of the two units. (...) I've used it on countless projects, Nat "King" Cole, Frank Sinatra, Beach Boys, Doors, Eagles, Ringo, McCartney, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Peggy Lee, Jethro Tull, Chuck Berry, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Van Morrison, White Stripes, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ella Fitzgerald, Yes, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Steely Dan, Steppenwolf, Bad Company, Jim Croce, Elvis Presley, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Dave Mason, Paul Simon, America, The Band, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Cars, ZZ Top, James Taylor, Art Pepper, Steve Miller Band, Queen, Rod Stewart, Duke Ellington, John Lee Hooker, Al Jolson, Roy Orbison, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis, Jr., The Who, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bill Haley & his Comets, Miles Davis, Mamas and Papas, Blue Öyster Cult, The Byrds, Eric Clapton, Bill Evans Trio, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Phil Collins, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck, Doobie Bros., Faces, Grand Funk, Heart, Billy Joel, Linda Ronstadt, Ten Years After, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Pat Benetar, Elton John, Leon Russell, Metallica. etc.
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Discography
Grant's First Stand (Rudy Van Gelder Edition / Remastered 2009)
1961
Green Street (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
1961
Grantstand
1961
Am I Blue?
1963
Street Of Dreams (Remastered)
1964
Talkin' About
1964
His Majesty King Funk
1965
Iron City
1966
Alive! (Live At The Cliche' Lounge, Newark, New Jersey, 1970 / Remastered 2000)
1970
Green Is Beautiful
1970
Carryin' On
1970
Visions
1971