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Grant Green: Church Perch

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Marc Myers
Aug 25, 2020
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Guitarist Grant Green recorded two gospel-flavored leadership albums for Blue Note. The first was Sunday Mornin', in June 1961, and the second was Feelin' the Spirit, in December 1962. Green, of course, would become a New York studio star in the 1960s and '70s, but he grew up in St. Louis where he began his career at age 13 playing guitar in churches, b…

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