Grant Green - Shades Of Green

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1972
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:46
Size: 92,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:55)  1. I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself)/Cold Sweat - Medley
(4:12)  2. Sunrise, Sunset
(4:34)  3. Never My Love
(4:24)  4. Got To Be There
(6:22)  5. California Green
(4:30)  6. If You Really Love Me
(4:50)  7. Cast Your Fate To The Wind
(4:56)  8. In The Middle

A stellar album from Grant Green very different than most of his other work for Blue Note, and a sly electric groover recorded with vibist Billy Wooten! The sound here is a bit more spacious than some of Grant's earlier albums, yet no less funky thanks to a hip undercurrent of soul in the drums, and arrangements from Wade Marcus that keep things fluid throughout. Wooten's vibes are wonderful, a ringing counterpoint to Green's great lines on guitar and even the more familiar tunes on the record turn out to be really unique readings here thanks to the arrangements and overall conception. Mellow moments are dripping with plenty of soul, and the funky ones are pretty great too and titles include a killer medley of James Brown's "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing" and "Cold Sweat", a heavy version of his instrumental groover "In The Middle", and a great original called "California Green"plus "Never My Love", "Sunrise Sunset", "Got To Be There", and "If You Really Love Me".  © 1996-2019, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/5369/Grant-Green:Shades-Of-Green

Personnel: Grant Green - guitar; Billy Wooten - vibes; Emmanuel Riggins - electric piano, clavinet; Wilton Felder - electric bass; Nesbert "Stix" Hooper - drums; King Errisson - conga; Harold Caldwell - percussion; Joe Newman, Joe Wilder, Victor Paz, Jimmy Sedlar - trumpet; Harry DiVito - trombone; Dick Hickson - bass trombone; Jim Buffington - french horn; Phil Bodner, Romeo Penque, George Marge, John Leone - woodwinds

Shades Of Green

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