Green Is Beautiful
1970 studio album by Grant Green
Green Is Beautiful | ||||
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Studio album by Grant Green | ||||
Released | July 1970[1] | |||
Recorded | January 30, 1970 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 37:33 | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Producer | Francis Wolff | |||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Green Is Beautiful is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label.[4]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Green Is Beautiful finds the guitarist growing more comfortable with harder, funkier R&B than he seemed on the softer-hued Carryin' On... Green Is Beautiful proves that Green's reinvention as a jazz-funk artist wasn't the misguided disaster it was initially made out to be".[2]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Ain't It Funky Now" | James Brown | 9:58 |
2. | "A Day in the Life" | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 9:02 |
3. | "The Windjammer" | Neal Creque | 5:42 |
4. | "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | 6:46 |
5. | "Dracula" | Creque | 6:05 |
- Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on January 30, 1970
Personnel
- Grant Green - guitar
- Blue Mitchell - trumpet
- Claude Bartee - tenor saxophone
- Neal Creque (track 3), Emmanuel Riggins (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5) - organ
- Jimmy Lewis - electric bass
- Idris Muhammad - drums
- Candido Camero - conga
- Richie "Pablo" Landrum - bongos
References
- ^ Billboard July 25, 1970
- ^ a b Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 17, 2010
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 601. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Grant Green discography accessed September 17, 2010
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- Grant's First Stand (1961)
- Green Street (1961)
- Sunday Mornin' (1962)
- Grantstand (1962)
- The Latin Bit (1963)
- Feelin' the Spirit (1963)
- Am I Blue (1964)
- Idle Moments (1965)
- Talkin' About! (1965)
- His Majesty King Funk (1965)
- I Want to Hold Your Hand (1966)
- Street of Dreams (1967)
- Goin' West (1969)
- Carryin' On (1970)
- Green Is Beautiful (1970)
- Visions (1971)
- Shades of Green (1971)
- Iron City (1972)
- The Main Attraction (1976)
- Easy (1978)
- Matador (1979)
- Solid (1979)
- Remembering (1980)
- Gooden's Corner (1980)
- Nigeria (1980)
- Oleo (1980)
- Born to Be Blue (1985)
- The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark (1997)
- Blues for Lou (1999)
- First Session (2001)
- Alive! (1970)
- Live at The Lighthouse (1972)
- Live at Club Mozambique (2006)
- The Final Comedown (1972)