{"id":17054,"date":"2025-04-27T19:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/?p=17054"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:18:06","slug":"matador-grant-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/matador-grant-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Matador (Grant Green)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matador is the title track from a session Grant Green recorded in 1964, though it wasn\u2019t released until 1979 on the Japanese Blue Note label. It was recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s well-known Englewood Cliffs studio, and although the album went unnoticed for years, it features some of Green’s best playing.<\/p>\n

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The album has a great lineup, with McCoy Tyner on piano and Elvin Jones on drums (both from John Coltrane<\/a>‘s quartet), plus Bob Cranshaw on bass.<\/p>\n

Unlike many of Green’s better-known soul-jazz recordings, Matador has a more open, modal sound that shows a different side of his playing.<\/p>\n

In this lesson, you will learn how to play the melody of Matador. The melody itself is relatively straightforward, making it accessible to intermediate players, and is a great exercise in scale-based phrasing, picking, and syncopation.<\/p>\n

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Matador Melody – Video<\/h2>\n