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Grant Green

1935 - 1979

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Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer. Recording prolifically for Blue Note Records as both leader and sideman, Green performed in the hard bop, soul jazz, bebop, and Latin-tinged idioms throughout his career. Critic Michael Erlewine wrote, "A severely underrated player during his lifetime, Grant Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar ... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grant Green has received more than 672,851 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Grant Green is the 925th most popular musician (down from 907th in 2019), the 4,536th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,491st in 2019) and the 317th most popular American Musician.

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  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Grant Green ranks 925 out of 2,662. Before him are Mick Fleetwood, Joe Henderson, Herbert Grönemeyer, Andi Deris, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, and Trevor Pinnock. After him are John Illsley, Otis Rush, Carl Tausig, Amy Lee, Leon Fleisher, and John Scofield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Grant Green ranks 211. Before him are Valentin Gaft, Juan Bautista Agüero, Jaromil Jireš, Rosenda Monteros, Vladimir Aksyonov, and Ali Al-Naimi. After him are Belinda Lee, Ramón Chao, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Michael Kahn, and Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi. Among people deceased in 1979, Grant Green ranks 135. Before him are David Butler, Ivar Johansson, Pedro Arico Suárez, Ludwig Renn, Issa Pliyev, and Amedeo Nazzari. After him are István Örkény, Lothar Wolleh, Georgy Beriev, I. A. Richards, Tapio Rautavaara, and Ted Cassidy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grant Green ranks 4,536 out of 18,182. Before him are Dana White (1969), Linda McMahon (1948), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), William Graham Sumner (1840), Isadore Singer (1924), and Rebecca Romijn (1972). After him are Dee Dee Bridgewater (1950), Otis Rush (1934), Arsenio Hall (1956), Jeanne Crain (1925), Marion Lorne (1883), and Don Schollander (1946).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Grant Green ranks 317. Before him are Michael Brecker (1949), James Kottak (1962), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), Cecil Taylor (1929), J. J. Johnson (1924), and Joe Henderson (1937). After him are Otis Rush (1934), Amy Lee (1981), Leon Fleisher (1928), John Scofield (1951), Rick James (1948), and Rob Zombie (1965).

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