Visions (Grant Green album)

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Visions
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Studio album by
Grant Green
ReleasedSeptember 1971 [1]
RecordedMay 21, 1971
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length37:06
Label Blue Note
Producer George Butler
Grant Green chronology
Live at Club Mozambique
(1971)		Visions
(1971)		 Shades of Green
(1971)

Visions is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1971 and released on the Blue Note label. [2]

Contents

Recording and music

The album contains renditions of several contemporary pop and classical tunes. As well as an interpretation of the 1st Movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 40, "Maybe Tomorrow" incorporates a melodic motif from Maurice Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte. "Maybe Tomorrow" was in turn sampled by American hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar on his 2012 song "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Visions is a bit laid-back, and the electric piano-heavy arrangements are a little dated, but Grant Green never made a commercial pop-jazz album as appealing and satisfying". [3]

Track listing

  1. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Robert Lamm) - 5:10
  2. "Maybe Tomorrow" (Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman, Quincy Jones) - 4:54
  3. "Mozart Symphony #40 in G Minor, K550, 1st Movement" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) - 4:06
  4. "Love on a Two-Way Street" (Bert Keyes, Sylvia Robinson) - 4:43
  5. "Cantaloupe Woman" (Ben Dixon) - 5:29
  6. "We've Only Just Begun" (Roger Nichols, Paul Williams) - 5:09
  7. "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Clifton Davis) - 5:04
  8. "Blues for Abraham" (Eloise Riggins) - 2:31
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on May 21, 1971

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Billboard". September 25, 1971.
  2. ↑ Grant Green discography accessed September 17, 2010
  3. 1 2 Erlewine, S. T. Allmusic Review accessed September 17, 2010
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