Performance · Other credits

Rodgers Grant

real name Rodgers Lee Grant

Rodgers Grant is credited on 805 releases across 181 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

Start your shelf →Open in app

805

Credits

181

Albums

7

Decades active

78

In collections

Biography

source

Showing the Discogs bio

American jazz pianist, composer and lyricist. Pianist in the '60s for Mongo Santamaria's band, with whom he recorded "Yeh-Yeh!", an instrumental he co-wrote with Pat Patrick. (The work later had lyrics added & recorded by Jon Hendricks in 1963 - eventually becoming an international hit by Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames as "Yeah, Yeah"). [See also Mongo Music]
Grant's compositions have been covered by a multitude of jazz artists, including Hubert Laws, Thelonious Monk and Stan Getz to name a few. He also recorded with Hubert Laws, George Benson, Esther Phillips, and Ithamara Koorax, who often performes Grant's "Morning Star" on her concerts, as a tribute to him.
Born: 18 January 1936
Died: 12 April 2012, Defiance, Ohio, USA.

Bio from Discogs

Credited work

805 releases · 181 albums · active 1961–2025

  • Performance · 1,021
  • Other credits · 16

Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Plaza Sound Studios · Jazzhus Montmartre · Pacific Recording Studios

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

Around the web

See who really made the music.

Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.