Easy (Grant Green album)

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Easy
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Released1978
RecordedApril 17–20, 1978
Genre Jazz
Label Versatile
Grant Green chronology
The Main Attraction
(1976)
Easy
(1978)

Easy (also released as Last Session) is the final album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1978, a few months before his death, and released on the Versatile label. [1]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

The Allmusic review by awarded the album 3 stars. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Easy" (Lionel Richie) - 7:57
  2. "Just the Way You Are" (Billy Joel) - 7:11
  3. "Wave" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) - 6:07
  4. "Empanada" (Gene Dunlap, Mario E. Sprouse) - 12:19
  5. "Nighttime in the Switching Yard" (Jorge Calderón, David Lindell) - 5:11
  6. "Three Times a Lady" (Lionel Richie) - 7:07

Personnel

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References

  1. Grant Green discography accessed September 20, 2010
  2. 1 2 Allmusic Review accessed September 20, 2010
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 601. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.