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Grant Green photograph from the 50's


Peter A

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I stumbled upon this interesting (vintage) picture of Grant Green. I have never seen him playing - only on photographs of course - on a solid body guitar before. It looks like a Fender Stratocaster. The name of the horn player is Bobby Graff (?). To me the picture has the same atmosphere as certain pictures of Magic Sam or Otis Rush, taken in Chicago clubs in the fifties.

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Graf preceded Wardell Gray in the Basie octet ('48-50), then joined Woody Herman for a couple of years. In the early '50s he lived in California playing with the Lighthouse All Stars and recording with the Chet Baker Big Band in '56. He moved back to KC around '57 and for a while led a group with GG and Sam Lazar. He died in '81.

Most of this info comes from the liners to a scrappy Graf date on Delmark.

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