Peter A Posted April 30, 2003 Report Posted April 30, 2003 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. Quote
Joe G Posted April 30, 2003 Report Posted April 30, 2003 That's wild! I wouldn't have even recognized him. Do you know the year? Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted April 30, 2003 Report Posted April 30, 2003 Yes, it is Bob Graf. The year is probably '58 ot '59. Quote
Peter A Posted April 30, 2003 Author Report Posted April 30, 2003 Sorry, I don't know the year. Here's the link to the site -- which appears to be exploited by Sharony Andrews Green (yeah, from the biography): The Green Room Quote
Peter A Posted April 30, 2003 Author Report Posted April 30, 2003 Yes, it is Bob Graf. Chuck, Could you please give me some info on Bob Graf (where/with whom did he play -- was he ever recorded). Thanks. Peter Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted April 30, 2003 Report Posted April 30, 2003 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. Quote
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