# No. 1 Green Street guitar solo > The guitar solo on No. 1 Green Street by Grant Green (1961). From the album Green Street. Played on a Gibson ES-330. A jazz classic from the 1960s. Canonical URL: Grant Green, 1961, from *Green Street*. Solo by *Grant Green*. In a spare guitar-bass-drums trio, Green builds chorus after chorus of bluesy, riff-based invention. The open setting exposes just how clean and rhythmically assured his lines were. No. 1 Green Street by Grant Green is #3 in our ranking of the best Grant Green guitar solos. The solo is played by Grant Green and the song was released in 1961. ## In our lists - [The Best Grant Green Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/grant-green-guitar-solos/) — #3 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1961](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1961/) — #12 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on No. 1 Green Street? Grant Green played the solo on Grant Green's No. 1 Green Street (1961). ### What guitar was used on the No. 1 Green Street solo? A gibson es-330, according to widely reported accounts. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)