Green Street (album)

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Green Street
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1961 [1]
RecordedApril 1, 1961
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz, post-bop
Length39:19
Label Blue Note
BST 84071
Producer Alfred Lion
Grant Green chronology
Grant's First Stand
(1961)
Green Street
(1961)
Sunday Mornin'
(1961)

Green Street is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded and released on the Blue Note label in 1961. [2] Green is backed by bassist Ben Tucker and drummer Dave Bailey. The CD reissue in 1995 features two alternate takes from the same session as bonus tracks.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos 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". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Grant Green except as indicated

  1. "No. 1 Green Street" – 7:20
  2. "'Round About Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) – 7:04
  3. "Grant's Dimensions" – 7:56
  4. "Green with Envy" – 9:46
  5. "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 7:13

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

  1. "Green with Envy" [Alternate take] – 7:55
  2. "Alone Together" [Alternate take] – 6:56

Personnel

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References

  1. Billboard Oct 16, 1961
  2. Grant Green discography accessed September 14, 2010
  3. 1 2 Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed September 14, 2010
  4. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 598. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.