Given the question: Facts: - instrument: guitar - years active: 1959 -- 1978 - label: blue note records - death date: 31 january 1979 - genre: soul post-bop , jazz-funk jazz , hard bop , jazz blues , - notable instruments: gibson es-330 , d'aquisto - birth date: 6 june 1935 - name: grant green - background: non_vocal_instrumentalist - image: grant green guitarist.jpg - associated acts: larry young , lou donaldson , big john patton - occupation: musician , songwriter Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of grant green .
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grant green -lrb- june 6 , 1935 -- january 31 , 1979 -rrb- was an american jazz guitarist and composer .recording prolifically and mainly for blue note records -lrb- as both leader and sideman -rrb- green performed in the hard bop , soul jazz , bebop and latin-tinged idioms throughout his career .critics michael erlewine and ron wynn write , '' a severely underrated player during his lifetime , grant green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar ... green 's playing is immediately recognizable -- perhaps more than any other guitarist . ''critic dave hunter described his sound as '' lithe , loose , slightly bluesy and righteously groovy '' .he often performed in an organ trio , a small group with an organ and drummer .apart from guitarist charlie christian , green 's primary influences were saxophonists , particularly charlie parker , and his approach was therefore almost exclusively linear rather than chordal .the simplicity and immediacy of green 's playing , which tended to avoid chromaticism , derived from his early work playing rhythm and blues and , although at his best he achieved a synthesis of this style with bop , he was essentially a blues guitarist and returned almost exclusively to this style in his later career .