Hubert Green
Personal information
Full name	Hubert Myatt Green
Nickname	Hubie
Born	(1946-12-28) December 28, 1946 (age 65) Birmingham, Alabama
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Mountain Brook, Alabama
Spouse	Michelle
Career
College	Florida State University
Turned professional	1969
Retired	2009
Current tour(s)	Champions Tour
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	28
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	19
European Tour	1
Japan Golf Tour	2
Champions Tour	4
Best results in Major Championships (Wins: 2)
Masters Tournament	T2: 1978
U.S. Open	Won: 1977
The Open Championship	3rd: 1977
PGA Championship	Won: 1985
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame	2007 (member page)

Hubert Myatt Green (born December 28, 1946) is a former American professional golfer who won 23 professional golf tournaments on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.

Green was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up playing at the Birmingham Country Club, where his parents were members. Green played on the golf team at Florida State University, graduated in 1968 with a degree in marketing, and turned pro in 1969. He won the Houston Champions International and was the PGA Tour's Rookie of the Year in 1971.^[1] Green is among the top 38 all-time PGA Tour winners with 19 victories during his 26 years on the PGA Tour. He won two major championships: the 1977 U.S. Open which was held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the 1985 PGA Championship which was held at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. He played on three Ryder Cup teams: 1977, 1979, and 1985.^[1][2] In 1977, Green finished third in The Open Championship at Turnberry, that became known as the "Duel in the Sun", as Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus finished respectively 11 and 10 shots clear of Green in third place; fittingly, perhaps, Green also finished the year ranked third in Mark McCormack's world golf rankings that year.

In the 1978 Masters, Green reached the final hole about 30 minutes after Gary Player had finished a round of 64. Player had a 1-shot lead over Green, who hit a good drive and then a great approach to within three feet of the cup. Green had to back away from the putt when he overheard radio announcer Jim Kelly say something. When Green took the stroke, he pushed it a little to the right and the putt slid by. Green never blamed Kelly, however, telling Golf Digest, "Only an amateur would have been put off by the interruption — or would try to make excuses about it."^[2]

In his second season on the Senior PGA Tour in 1998, Green won the Bruno's Memorial Classic in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He has four career victories on the Champions Tour, which was known as the Senior PGA Tour until 2002. He retired from professional golf in 2009.^[3]

Green is active in golf course design having designed the TPC at Southwind, the site for the PGA Tour's St. Jude Classic. He also designed Greystone, the site of his victory in the Bruno's Classic, and Reynolds Plantation in Georgia.

In the spring of 2003, Green was diagnosed with oral cancer after his dentist noticed an unusual swelling on the back of his tongue^[2] after a routine cleaning and referred him to a medical specialist for evaluation. Green underwent a very difficult and painful regimen of radiation and chemotherapy treatments during the summer of 2003.^[1] By the end of 2003, however, his cancer was in remission; his weight crept up to 165 pounds from a low of 143 pounds.^[4]

In April 2007, Green was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in the Veteran's category; he was inducted in November 2007.^[2]

Amateur wins[link]

this list may be incomplete

• 1966 Southern Amateur
• 1967 Alabama Amateur
• 1968 Alabama Amateur
• 1969 Southern Amateur

Professional wins (28)[link]

PGA Tour wins (19)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	May 16, 1971	Houston Champions International	-4 (68-69-72-71=280)	Playoff	Don January
2	Apr 22, 1973	Tallahassee Open	-11 (69-67-70-71=277)	1 stroke	Jim Simons
3	Sep 23, 1973	B.C. Open	-18 (69-65-65-67=266)	6 strokes	Dwight Nevil
4	Feb 10, 1974	Bob Hope Desert Classic	-19 (72-69-66-69-65=341)	2 strokes	Bert Yancey
5	Mar 17, 1974	Greater Jacksonville Open	-12 (70-67-68-71=276)	3 strokes	John Mahaffey
6	Jun 9, 1974	IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic	-17 (70-67-66-68=271)	4 strokes	Hale Irwin
7	Nov 3, 1974	Walt Disney World National Team Championship (with Mac McLendon)	-33 (64-64-63-64=255)	1 stroke	Sam Snead & J. C. Snead, Ed Sneed & Bert Yancey
8	Sep 7, 1975	Southern Open	-16 (68-66-66-64=264)	3 strokes	John Schroeder
9	Mar 14, 1976	Doral-Eastern Open	-18 (66-70-65-69=270)	5 strokes	Mark Hayes, Jack Nicklaus
10	Mar 21, 1976	Greater Jacksonville Open	-12 (70-67-68-71=276)	2 strokes	Miller Barber
11	Mar 28, 1976	Sea Pines Heritage Classic	-10 (68-67-66-73=274)	5 strokes	Jerry McGee
12	Jun 19, 1977	U.S. Open	-2 (69-67-72-70=278)	1 strokes	Lou Graham
13	Feb 5, 1978	Hawaiian Open	-14 (69-66-68-71=274)	Playoff	Billy Kratzert
14	Mar 26, 1978	Heritage Classic	-7 (70-70-70-67=277)	3 strokes	Hale Irwin
15	Feb 11, 1979	Hawaiian Open	-21 (68-67-63-69=267)	3 strokes	Fuzzy Zoeller
16	Apr 29, 1979	First NBC New Orleans Open	-15 (69-67-69-68=273)	1 stroke	Frank Conner, Bruce Lietzke, Steve Melnyk, Lee Trevino
17	Aug 16, 1981	Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open	-20 (68-65-67-64=264)	1 stroke	Bobby Clampett, Fred Couples, Roger Maltbie
18	Oct 14, 1984	Southern Open	-15 (65-66-67-67=265)	6 strokes	Rex Caldwell, Scott Hoch, Corey Pavin
19	Aug 11, 1985	PGA Championship	-6 (67-69-70-72=278)	2 strokes	Lee Trevino

PGA Tour playoff record (2-3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1971	Houston Champions International	Don January	Won with par on fifth extra hole
2	1975	Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open	Don Bies	Lost to birdie on second extra hole
3	1978	Hawaiian Open	Bill Kratzert	Won with par on second extra hole
4	1978	World Series of Golf	Gil Morgan	Lost to par on first extra hole
5	1986	Doral-Eastern Open	Andy Bean	Lost to birdie on fourth extra hole

European Tour wins (1)[link]

• 1977 Carroll's Irish Open

Japan Golf Tour wins (2)[link]

• 1975 Dunlop Phoenix
• 1985 Casio World Open

Other wins (1)[link]

• 1980 Jerry Ford Invitational (co-winner)

Champions Tour wins (4)[link]

• 1998 Bruno's Memorial Classic
• 2000 Audi Senior Classic, Kroger Senior Classic
• 2002 Lightpath Long Island Classic

Other senior wins (1)[link]

• 1999 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Gil Morgan)

Major championships[link]

Wins (2)[link]

Year	Championship	54 Holes	Winning Score	Margin	Runner-up
1977	U.S. Open	1 shot lead	-2 (69-67-72-70=278)	1 stroke	Lou Graham
1985	PGA Championship	3 shot lead	-6 (67-69-70-72=278)	2 strokes	Lee Trevino

Results timeline[link]

DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
DQ = Disqualified
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

See also[link]

• Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
• Longest PGA Tour win streaks

References[link]

External links[link]

• Hubert Green at the PGA Tour official site
• Hubert Green at the European Tour official site
• Hubert Green at the Japan Golf Tour official site
• World Golf Hall of Fame profile

Hubert Green in the Ryder Cup v t e United States Ryder Cup team – 1977 Raymond Floyd • Lou Graham • Hubert Green • Dave Hill • Hale Irwin • Don January • Jerry McGee • Jack Nicklaus • Ed Sneed • Dave Stockton • Lanny Wadkins • Tom Watson Dow Finsterwald (non-playing captain) Won: 12.5 – 7.5 v t e United States Ryder Cup team – 1979 Andy Bean · Lee Elder · Hubert Green · Mark Hayes · Hale Irwin · Tom Kite · John Mahaffey · Gil Morgan · Larry Nelson · Lee Trevino · Lanny Wadkins · Fuzzy Zoeller Billy Casper (non-playing captain) Won: 17 – 11 v t e United States Ryder Cup team – 1985 Raymond Floyd · Hubert Green · Peter Jacobsen · Tom Kite · Andy North · Mark O'Meara · Calvin Peete · Craig Stadler · Curtis Strange · Hal Sutton · Lanny Wadkins · Fuzzy Zoeller Lee Trevino (non-playing captain) Lost: 11.5 – 16.5

Grant Green (St. Louis, Missouri, June 6, 1935 – New York, January 31, 1979; some sources erroneously give the birth year as 1931^[1]) was a jazz guitarist and composer.

Recording prolifically and almost exclusively for Blue Note Records (as both leader and sideman) Green performed well in hard bop, soul jazz, bebop and Latin-tinged settings 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."^[2] Critic Dave Hunter described his sound as "lithe, loose, slightly bluesy and righteously groovy".^[3] He often performed in an organ trio, a small group with an organ and drummer.

Apart from 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.^[4] Green used a Gibson ES-330, then a Gibson L7 with a Gibson McCarty pickguard/pick-up, an Epiphone Emperor (with the same pick-up) and finally had a custom built D'Aquisto. George Benson said he would turn all the bass and treble off the amp, and max the midrange. This way he could get his signature punchy, biting tone.

Biography[link]

Green was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He first performed in a professional setting at the age of 12. His influences were Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Ike Quebec, Lester Young, Jimmy Raney, Jimmy Smith and Miles Davis, he first played boogie-woogie before moving on to jazz. His first recordings in St. Louis were with tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest for the Delmark label. The drummer in the band was Elvin Jones, later the powerhouse behind John Coltrane. Grant recorded with Elvin again in the early Sixties. Lou Donaldson discovered Grant playing in a bar in St. Louis. After touring together with Donaldson, Grant arrived in New York around 1959-60.

Lou Donaldson introduced Grant to Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records. Lion was so impressed with Grant that, rather than testing Grant as a sideman, as was the usual Blue Note practice, Lion arranged for him to record as a bandleader first. Green's initial recording session went unreleased until 2001, however, owing to a lack of confidence on Green's behalf. [1] [2]

Despite the shelving of his first session, Green's recording relationship with Lion and Blue Note was to last, with a few exceptions, throughout the Sixties. From 1961 to 1965, Grant made more appearances on Blue Note LPs, as leader or sideman, than anyone else. Grant's first issued album as a leader was Grant's First Stand. This was followed in the same year by Green Street and Grantstand. Grant was named best new star in the Down Beat critics' poll, 1962, and, as a result, his influence spread wider than New York. He often provided support to the other important musicians on Blue Note, including saxophonists Hank Mobley, Ike Quebec, Stanley Turrentine and Harold Vick, as well as organist Larry Young.

Sunday Mornin' , The Latin Bit and Feelin' the Spirit are all loose concept albums, each taking a musical theme or style: Gospel, Latin and spirituals respectively. Grant always carried off his more commercial dates with artistic success during this period. Idle Moments (1963), featuring Joe Henderson and Bobby Hutcherson, and Solid (1964), featuring the Coltrane rhythm section, are acclaimed as two of Grant's best recordings.

Many of Grant's recordings were not released during his lifetime. These include Matador, in which Grant is once again in the heavyweight company of the Coltrane rhythm section, and a series of sessions with pianist Sonny Clark. In 1966 Grant left Blue Note and recorded for several other labels, including Verve. From 1967 to 1969 Grant was, for the most part, inactive due to personal problems and the effects of heroin addiction. In 1969 Grant returned with a new funk-influenced band. His recordings from this period include the commercially successful Green is Beautiful and the soundtrack to the film The Final Comedown. Grant was also a huge influence on guitarists, from George Benson to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Still to this day guitarists try to get his signature sound, Idle Moments is considered one of the top 100 jazz albums of all time.

Grant left Blue Note again in 1974 and the subsequent recordings he made with other labels divide opinion: some consider Green to have been the 'Father of Acid Jazz' (and his late recordings have been sampled by artists including US3, A Tribe Called Quest and Public Enemy^[5]), whilst others have dismissed them (Michael Cuscuna wrote in the sleeve notes for the album Matador that "During the 1970s he made some pretty lame records").

Grant spent much of 1978 in hospital and, against the advice of doctors, went back on the road to earn some money. While in New York to play an engagement at George Benson's Breezin' Lounge, Grant collapsed in his car of a heart attack in New York City on January 31, 1979. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, and was survived by six children. Since Green's demise, his reputation has grown to legendary status and many compilations of both his earlier (post-bop/straight ahead and soul jazz) and later (funkier/dancefloor jazz) periods, exist.

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

Blue Note Records

Other labels

As sideman[link]

1959

• Jimmy Forrest - All the Gin Is Gone (Delmark)
• Jimmy Forrest - Black Forrest (Delmark)

1960

• Sam Lazar - Space Flight (Argo)
• Willie Dixon - Blues Roots Series, Vol. 12 (Chess)

1961

• Lou Donaldson - Here 'Tis (Blue Note)
• Baby Face Willette - Face to Face (Blue Note)
• Baby Face Willette - Stop and Listen (Blue Note)
• Brother Jack McDuff - The Honeydripper (Prestige)
• Stanley Turrentine - Up at "Minton's" (Blue Note)
• Dave Bailey - Reaching Out (Jazztime)
• Hank Mobley - Workout (Blue Note)
• Horace Parlan - Up & Down (Blue Note)
• Brother Jack McDuff - Steppin' Out (Prestige)
• Brother Jack McDuff - Goodnight, It's Time To Go (Prestige)
• Stanley Turrentine - ZT's Blues (Blue Note)
• Lou Donaldson - A Man with a Horn (Blue Note)
• Sonny Red/Grant Green/Barry Harris - The Mode (Jazzland)
• Sonny Red - Images (Jazzland)
• Ike Quebec - Blue and Sentimental (Blue Note)

1962

• Joe Carroll - Man with a Happy Sound (Charlie Parker Records)
• Dodo Greene - My Hour of Need (Blue Note)
• Don Wilkerson - Elder Don (Blue Note)
• Lou Donaldson - The Natural Soul (Blue Note)
• Don Wilkerson - Preach Brother! (Blue Note)

1963

• Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious! (Blue Note)
• Jimmy Smith - I'm Movin' On (Blue Note)
• Jimmy Smith - Special Guests (Blue Note Japan)
• Booker Ervin - Back from the Gig (Blue Note)
• Herbie Hancock - My Point of View (Blue Note)
• Horace Parlan - Happy Frame of Mind (Blue Note)
• "Big" John Patton - Along Came John (Blue Note)
• Gloria Coleman - Soul Sisters (Impulse!)
• Harold Vick - Steppin' Out! (Blue Note)
• "Big" John Patton - Blue John (Blue Note)
• Don Wilkerson - Shoutin' (Blue Note)
• George Braith - Two Souls in One (Blue Note)
• Mary Lou Williams - Black Christ of the Andes (Saba/MPS)
• George Braith - Soulstream (Blue Note)
• Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker (Blue Note)

1964

• Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land (Blue Note)
• George Braith - Extension (Blue Note)
• "Big" John Patton - The Way I Feel (Blue Note)
• Larry Young - Into Somethin' (Blue Note)
• Donald Byrd - I'm Tryin' to Get Home (Blue Note)

1965

• Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis - Joe's Blues (Verve)
• Grassella Oliphant - The Grass Is Greener (Atlantic)
• "Big" John Patton - Oh Baby! (Blue Note)
• Lou Donaldson - Musty Rusty (Cadet)
• Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis - Wings and Things (Verve)
• "Big" John Patton - Let 'em Roll (Blue Note)

1966

• George Braith - Laughing Souls (Prestige)
• "Big" John Patton - Got a Good Thing Goin' (Blue Note)
• Art Blakey - Hold On, I'm Coming (Limelight)
• Stanley Turrentine - Rough 'n' Tumble (Blue Note)

1969

• Rusty Bryant - Returns (Prestige)
• Charles Kynard - The Soul Brotherhood (Prestige)
• Reuben Wilson - Love Bug (Blue Note)
• Don Patterson - Brother-4 (Prestige)
• Don Patterson - Donnybrook (Prestige)
• Don Patterson - Tune Up! (Prestige)

1970

• Charles Kynard - Afro-Disiac (Prestige)
• Fats Theus - Black Out (CTI)
• Houston Person - Person to Person! (Prestige)

1973

• Houston Person - The Real Thing (Eastbound)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Great Jazz Guitar Players: Grant Green
• Grant Green discography at MusicBrainz
• Grant Green Pages
• The Grant Green Tone
• Grant Green Discography Project
• Evergreen - Grant Green Tribute Page
• German Grant Green site with fully illustrated discography
• Grant Green discography with cover photos

Hubert Laws
Background information
Born	(1939-11-10) November 10, 1939 (age 72)
Origin	Houston, Texas, United States
Genres	Jazz, classical
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Flute
Years active	1964–present
Labels	RKO/Unique, Sony, Music Masters Jazz, CTI, Columbia
Website	www.HubertLaws.com

Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939)^[1] is an American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 40 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Alongside Herbie Mann, Laws is probably the most recognized and respected jazz flutist. Laws is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues genres, moving effortlessly from one repertory to another.^[2]

Biography[link]

Hubert Laws, Jr. was born November 10, 1939, in the Studewood section of Houston, Texas, the second of eight children to Hubert Laws, Sr. and Miola Luverta Donahue.^[1] Many of his siblings also entered the music industry, including saxophonist Ronnie and vocalists Eloise, Debra and Johnnie Laws. He began playing flute in high school after volunteering to substitute for the school orchestra's regular flutist. He became adept at jazz improvisation by playing in the Houston-area jazz group the Swingsters, which eventually evolved into the Modern Jazz Sextet, the Night Hawks, and The Crusaders. At age 15, was a member of the early Jazz Crusaders while in Texas (1954–1960), and he also played classical music during those years.

Winning a scholarship to New York's Juilliard School of Music in 1960, he studied music both in the classroom and with master flutist Julius Baker, and played with both the New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (member) and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, 1969-72. In this period his renditions of classical compositions by Gabriel Fauré, Stravinsky, Debussy, and Bach on the 1971 CTI recording Rite of Spring—with a string section and such jazz stalwarts as Airto Moreira, Jack DeJohnette, Bob James, and Ron Carter—earned him an audience of classical music aficionados. He would return to this genre in 1976 with a recording of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet.

While at Juillard, Laws played flute during the evenings with several acts, including Mongo Santamaría, 1963–67 and in 1964 began recording as a bandleader for the Atlantic label, and he released the albums The Laws of Jazz, Flute By-Laws, and Laws Cause. He guested on albums by Ashford and Simpson, Chet Baker, and George Benson. He also recorded with younger brother Ronnie Laws album The Laws in the early 1970s. He also played flute on Gil Scott-Heron's 1971 album Pieces of a Man, which featured the jazz poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." During the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet. He can also be heard playing tenor saxophone on some records from the Seventies.

In the 1990s Laws resumed his career, playing on the 1991 Spirituals in Concert recording by opera singers Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman. His albums on the Music Masters label—My Time Will Come in 1990 and, more particularly, Storm Then Calm in 1994—are regarded by critics as a return to the form he exhibited on his early 1970s albums. He also recorded a tribute album to jazz pianist and pop-music vocalist Nat King Cole, Hubert Laws Remembers the Unforgettable Nat King Cole, which received critical accolades. Among the many artists he has played and recorded with are Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Nancy Wilson, Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Lena Horne, Leonard Bernstein, James Moody, Jaco Pastorius, Sérgio Mendes, Bob James, Carly Simon, George Benson, Clark Terry, Stevie Wonder, J. J. Johnson, and The Rascals.^[3] In 1998, Laws recorded with Morcheeba for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Red Hot + Rhapsody, a tribute to George Gershwin, which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease.

The 2006 video Hubert Laws Live 30-year Video Retrospective, available only at hubertlaws.com, includes "Red Hot & Cool" with Nancy Wilson, Performance in Brazil, Johnny Carson Show Appearance, The 1975 Downbeat Reader's Poll Awards, Performance in Japan, and Performance in Germany.

Awards and honors[link]

In June 2010, Laws received a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts in the field of jazz.^[4]

Laws is a recipient of the 2011 NEA Jazz Masters Award.^[5]

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

As sideman[link]

With Chet Baker

• She Was Good to Me (1972)
• Studio Trieste (1982)

With George Benson

• Tell It Like It Is (A&M/CTI, 1969)
• The Other Side of Abbey Road (CTI, 1969)
• White Rabbit (CTI, 1972)
• Good King Bad (CTI, 1975)
• In Concert-Carnegie Hall (CTI, 1975)
• Pacific Fire (1983)