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	Grant Green: Racing Green - Guitar Solos 1959/62 (CD: Cherry Red, 2 CDs) Price: £12.99


Grant Green: Gooden's Corner (CD: American Jazz Classics) This release presents the complete Grant Green LP Gooden's Corner (Blue Note GXF-3058), which showcases the superb guitarist in a quartet format backed by the great Sonny Clark, Sam Jones, and Louis Hayes. As a bonus, we have added two rare tracks featuring Green in a trio format playing live at the Newport Jazz Festival. (Proper Music) Price: £12.99


	Grant Green: The Latin Bit (CD: Blue Note RVG) This album is a delightful foray into a variety of Latin styles from South American standards to New York Latino hits to jazz tunes with an Afro-Cuban tinge. Willie Bobo and Patato Valdes drive the proceedings beautifully and Green is cooking throughout. Three bonus tracks, two from a later session with Ike Quebec, have been added to the original album. (Blue Note Records) Price: £8.99


Grant Green: Street Of Dreams (CD: Blue Note RVG) A largely meditative session led off by a glorious cover of Trenet's 'I Wish You Love', laid back but slow-burned by Elvin Jones' powerful though subtle drumming, Bobby Hutcherson's consistently adaptable vibes and Larry Young's innovative hammond. First rate. Price: £8.99


	Grant Green: Green Street (CD: Blue Note RVG) Green Street, recorded on April 1, 1961, was Grant Green's second Blue Note album as a leader and remains one of the finest albums of his prolific Blue Note output. Supported by just Ben Tucker's bass and Dave Bailey's drums, the guitarist seems inspired by the absence of any other chordal instrument. His harmonic and interpretive imagination is in high gear on this unique masterpiece in his discography. Added to the original album are two alternate takes. (Blue Note Records) Price: £8.99


Grant Green: Green Street (Vinyl LP: Blue Note) Grant Green began his lengthy and prolific Blue Note career with the 1961 release of his debut album Grant’s First Stand, a stellar soul jazz outing that featured the guitarist in an organ trio with Baby Face Willette on Hammond B3 and Ben Dixon on drums. When he returned to Van Gelder Studio next in April of that year it was once again with a trio but this time one with a leaner sound featuring Green backed by bass (Ben Tucker) and drums (Dave Bailey). The spare setting and sturdy support created spacious realms for Green to expound at length, unspooling his inventive, bluesy lines on a 5-song set that included the no-nonsense originals “No. 1 Green Street,” “Grant’s Dimensions,” and “Green With Envy.” Green also showcased his singular tone on a stunning version of Thelonious Monk’s “‘Round About Midnight” and an alluring rendition of the standard “Alone Together.” This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. (Blue Note Records) Price: £25.99


	Grant Green: Idle Moments (CD: Blue Note RVG) Price: £8.99


Grant Green : Idle Moments (Vinyl LP: Blue Note) Time and troubles seem to melt away during the 15 enrapturing minutes of Idle Moments, the opening track of Grant Green’s sublime 1963 album of the same name. As the piece unhurriedly unfurls all the unique colors of the ensemble present themselves with Green’s soulful guitar joined by Duke Pearson’s elegant piano, Bobby Hutcherson’s crystalline vibraphone, Bob Cranshaw’s reassuring upright bass, Al Harewood’s subtle drums, and lastly Joe Henderson’s magnificent tenor saxophone. The pace quickens for the rest of this set including the Green original “Jean de Fleur,” a bluesy take on John Lewis’ MJQ standard “Django,” and Pearson’s original “Nomad.” This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. (Blue Note Records) Price: £25.99


	Grant Green: Green Is Beautiful (Vinyl LP: Blue Note) Guitarist Grant Green was prolific on Blue Note through the early-60s recording more than 20 hard bop and soul jazz sessions as a leader forthe label between1961-1965. By the time Green returned to the label in 1969 his musical style had evolved to wholly embrace jazz-funk as first heard on his album Carryin’ On. As the decade turned to 1970, Green was in back in Van Gelder Studio that January to record his vibrant album Green Is Beautiful, which remains one of the highlights of the era with the guitarist joined by Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Claude Bartee on tenor saxophone, Emmanuel Riggins and Neal Creque on organ, Jimmy Lewis on bass, Idris Muhammad on drums, Candido Camero on congas, and Richie Landrum on bongos. Throughout Green’s distinctive tone shines on this grooving 5-song set that opens with a 10-minute funk workout on James Brown’s “Ain’t It Funky Now” and includes covers of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” and Burt Bacharach’s “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” as well as two memorable originals by Creque: “The Windjammer” and “Dracula.” This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. (Blue Note Records) Price: £25.99


Grant Green: Alive! (Vinyl LP: Blue Note) After a prolific 5-year run from 1961-1965 when he made more than 20 great hard bop & soul jazz albums for Blue Note, guitarist Grant Green took a 4-year hiatus from recording. When he returned to Blue Note in 1969, Green’s style had moved into funkier territory as was perfectly captured on his first-ever live album “Alive!” which captured a hard-driving set of jazz-funk at the Cliché Lounge in Newark, New Jersey in 1970. The band is propelled by drummer Idris Muhammad who keeps a fire burning under Green, saxophonist Claude Bartee, vibraphonist Willie Bivens, organists Ronnie Foster & Neal Creque, and Joseph Armstrong on congas.The closing track “Down Here On The Ground” was famously sampled by A Tribe Called Quest for the track “Vibes and Stuff” on their hip-hop classic Low End Theory. (Blue Note Records) 180g vinyl pressing. Price: £25.99


	Grant Green: Slick! Live At Oil Can Harry's (CD: Resonance) 'Slick! - Live at Oil Can Harry's' is a never-before-released recording from jazz guitar icon Grant Green captured live on September 5, 1975 at Oil Can Harry's, a popular club in Vancouver, BC Canada. Featuring a primarily Detroit-based band with Emmanuel Riggins (father of drummer Karriem Riggins) on electric piano, Ronnie Ware on bass, drummer Greg "Vibrations" Williams (Jack McDuff, Lou Donaldson) and Gerald Izzard on percussion, 'Slick!'s centerpiece is the 30-plus minute funk exploration medley of Stanley Clarke's "Vulcan Princess," "Skin Tight" by the Ohio Players, Bobby Womack's "Woman's Gotta Have It," "Boogie On Reggae Woman" by Stevie Wonder and "For the Love of Money" by The O'Jays. This recording was originally broadcast on CHQM-FM and has been transferred from the original 10" reels to reveal a sterling sonic experience. Aside from Resonance's companion piece, Funk in France, being released simultaneously with this recording, this is only the 4th live recording released of the under-appreciated jazz guitar hero. Captured 3 years after the classic Live at the Lighthouse album released on Blue Note in 1972, this also marks the latest known official live Grant Green recording available. (Proper Music) Price: £13.99

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