‘Grant’s First Stand’: Proving That Guitarist Grant Green Had Legs

‘Grant’s First Stand’: Proving That Guitarist Grant Green Had Legs

Though Grant’s First Stand was guitarist Grant Green’s maiden release for Blue Note Records, it wasn’t his debut recording session for the famous New York jazz label. The St Louis guitarist had, in fact, gone into Rudy Van Gelder’s legendary studio at Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey – where Blue Note did the majority of their recordings from 1959 onwards – on two previous occasions. For some reason, however, the music recorded on two days across Oc…