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Born to Be Blue (Grant Green album)

Index Born to Be Blue (Grant Green album)

Born to Be Blue is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Blue Note label. [1]

35 relations: Al Jolson, Alfred Lion, AllMusic, Back in Your Own Backyard, Billy Rose, Blue Note Records, Bruno Coquatrix, Charlie Parker, Count Every Star, Dave Dreyer, Double bass, Drum kit, Frank Churchill, Grant Green, Guitar, Guy Wood, If I Should Lose You, Ike Quebec, Jazz, Larry Morey, Leo Robin, Louis Hayes, Mel Tormé, My One and Only Love, Oleo (Grant Green album), Piano, Ralph Rainger, Robert Mellin, Robert Wells (songwriter), Sam Jones (musician), Sammy Gallop, Someday My Prince Will Come, Sonny Clark, Tenor saxophone, The Latin Bit.

Al Jolson

Al or Albert Jolson (born Asa Yoelson; May 26, c.1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, and stage and film actor.

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Alfred Lion

Alfred Lion (born Alfred Loew, April 21, 1908 – February 2, 1987), was a Jewish German-born American record executive who co-founded Blue Note Records in 1939.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Back in Your Own Backyard

"Back in Your Own Backyard" is a popular song.

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Billy Rose

Billy Rose (born William Samuel Rosenberg, September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist.

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Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records.

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Bruno Coquatrix

Bruno Coquatrix (5 August 1910, Ronchin, Nord – 1 April 1979) was mainly known as the owner and manager of the music hall Paris Olympia.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Count Every Star

"Count Every Star" is a song written by Bruno Coquatrix and Sammy Gallop and first released by Ray Anthony and His Orchestra.

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Dave Dreyer

Dave Dreyer (born September 22, 1894, Brooklyn, New York – died March 1, 1967, New York City) was an American composer and pianist.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Frank Churchill

Frank Churchill (October 20, 1901 – May 14, 1942) was an American film composer.

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Grant Green

Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guy Wood

Guy B. Wood (July 24, 1911 – February 23, 2001) was a musician and songwriter born in Manchester, England.

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If I Should Lose You

"If I Should Lose You" is a song composed by Ralph Rainger, with lyrics by Leo Robin.

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Ike Quebec

Ike Abrams Quebec (August 17, 1918 – January 16, 1963) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Larry Morey

Lawrence L. "Larry" Morey (March 26, 1905 – May 8, 1971) was an American lyricist and screenwriter.

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Leo Robin

Leo Robin (April 6, 1900 – December 29, 1984) was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter.

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Louis Hayes

Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937) is an American jazz drummer.

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Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, best known as a singer of jazz standards.

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My One and Only Love

"My One and Only Love" is a popular song with music written by Guy Wood and lyrics by Robert Mellin.

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Oleo (Grant Green album)

Oleo is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Blue Note label in Japan in 1980.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Ralph Rainger

Ralph Rainger (October 7, 1901 – October 23, 1942) was an American composer of popular music principally for films.

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Robert Mellin

Robert Mellin (1902–1994) was an English songwriter and music publisher.

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Robert Wells (songwriter)

Robert Wells (born Robert Levinson, October 15, 1922 – September 23, 1998) was an American songwriter, composer, script writer and television producer.

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Sam Jones (musician)

Samuel Jones (November 12, 1924 – December 15, 1981) was an American jazz double bassist, cellist, and composer.

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Sammy Gallop

Sammy Gallop (March 16, 1915 – February 24, 1971) was an American lyricist, known for his big band and swing songs of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Someday My Prince Will Come

"Someday My Prince Will Come" is a popular song from Walt Disney's 1937 animated movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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Sonny Clark

Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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The Latin Bit

The Latin Bit is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Blue Note label.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_to_Be_Blue_(Grant_Green_album)

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