I just recieved a Grant Green CD, titled "His Majesty King Funk", and there is a picture of Grant Green that looks like the Grant Green I remember; anyway, this reads as follows:
"Throughout the Seventies and Eighties, Grant Green had become the forgotten man of jazz guitar. Overshadowed by such virtuosos as, first, Wes Montgomery, and later George Benson, Green was reduced to performing pop material with mediocre groups at the time of his death in 1979.
Some of his best recordings remained unissued until the Eighties, and were then only available in Japan in limited quanties."
That explains a lot of things for me; I've got all of these boss CD's by Grant Green, now the question is "Why aren't they LP's"? That's the way so many other people that I have in my collection are, the point is, if these albums were made back when, why didn't I have them in my collection "back when". This also coincides with some clown on "Agon" that's been saying that Grant Green had albums that couldn't be released because they were substandard. That also goes a long way to explain his economic troubles.
Right now, steam is coming out of both ears, so I'm not going to expand on the above paragraph; I'm going to put the CD in, and hear what it sounds like.
Enjoy the music.