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Format Details: Blue Vinyl
Release Date: 01 September 2019
Label: Jazz Images
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436569193631
Release Date: 01 November 2024
Label: 20th Century Masterworks
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436563185533
Description
Guitarist Grant Green (1935-1979) recorded prolifically both as a leader and as a sideman (primarily for the Blue Note label). He performed in the hard bop, soul jazz, bebop, and Latin-tinged idioms throughout his career. According to critics Michael Erlewine and Ron Wynn, "A severely underrated player during his lifetime, Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar". Green Street marked the guitar legend's second LP as a leader following Grant's First Stand (taped on January 28, 1961). Unlike most of his many trio albums, it didn't make use of the organ or the piano, featuring instead a guitar-bass-drums format. Backed by such subtle players as Ben Tucker and Dave Bailey, Green could showcase his talents with no inhibition, making this one of the most remarkable works of his whole career. Includes the bonus track "They Can't Take That Away From Me", also from 1961.
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Limited edition 180g blue coloured vinyl - the complete LP + bonus track, contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton and by Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.
'Green Street' is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded and released on Blue Note in 1961. Backed by bassist Ben Tucker and drummer Dave Bailey, Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Green Street stands as one of Grant Green's best recordings of many he produced in the ten prolific years he was with the Blue Note label".
"If this is not a definitive jazz guitar trio, they have not yet been born, and 'Green Stree't stands as one of Grant Green's best recordings of many he produced in the ten prolific years he was with the Blue Note label." - **** Michael G. Nastos, AllMusic
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Green Street is one of the most compelling recordings of Grant Green's early career, capturing the guitarist in an unusually open trio setting. Recorded on April 1, 1961, the album brings together Green with bassist Ben Tucker and drummer Dave Bailey, placing his guitar at the centre of a spare musical setting ideally suited to his direct and highly personal approach.
Without piano or additional horns, the trio leaves exceptional space for Green's clear tone and flowing single-note lines. His melodic style, deeply rooted in the blues and driven by an instinctive sense of swing, is supported by Tucker's assured bass playing and Bailey's subtle, responsive drumming. The three musicians create a relaxed but constantly engaging dialogue, allowing the music to unfold with freedom and clarity.
The repertoire combines three Grant Green originals - "No. 1 Green Street", "Grant's Dimensions" and "Green With Envy" - with two standards, "'Round About Midnight" and "Alone Together". Across these contrasting pieces, Green moves naturally between blues-inflected passages, extended improvisation and more lyrical moments, revealing the economy of expression and rhythmic assurance that became hallmarks of his playing.
The simplicity of the trio format is one of the album's greatest strengths, bringing every detail of Green's phrasing and musical imagination into focus. More than six decades after its original release, Green Street remains a defining document of his early career and a striking example of the clarity, individuality and expressive power that characterise his guitar playing.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Oliver Nelson
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Quincy Jones
Bill Evans
Grant Green
Count Basie
Sonny Rollins
John Coltrane
Grant Green
Grant Green
Grant Green
Grant Green
Grant Green
Grant Green
Grant Green
