Green, Grant - The Latin Bit.

NEW VINYL ON BLUE NOTE 2000.

Grant Green was born in St. Louis on June 6, 1931, learned his instrument in grade school from his guitar-playing father and was playing professionally by the age of thirteen with a gospel group. He worked gigs in his home town and in East St. Louis, IL, until he moved to New York in 1960 at the suggestion of Lou Donaldson. Green told Dan Morgenstern in a Down Beat interview: "The first thing I learned to play was boogie-woogie. Then I had to do a lot of rock & roll. It's all blues, anyhow." 

Tracklist.

1. MAMBO INN (Sampson-Woodlen-Bauza)
2. BESAME MUCHO (Velasquez-Skylar)
3. MAMA INEZ (Grenet-Gilbert)
1. BRAZIL (Barroso-Russell)
2. TICO TICO (Abreu)
3. MY LITTLE SUEDE SHOES (Charlie Parker)