Carryin' On

Grant Green | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 7, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note
• ASIN: B000005GYV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,922 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #46 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Boogaloo

Track Listings

1. Ease Back

2. Hurt So Bad

3. I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself)

4. Upshot

5. Cease The Bombing

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fans of Green's "soul jazz" era won't be disappointed., November 22, 1999

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MrAmeche "mrameche" (Charlottesville, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carryin' On (Audio CD)

There are generally two kinds of Grant Green fans: those who enjoy listening to his "soul jazz" work from the late 60's/early 70's, and those who absolutely despise it (the latter category tends to apply to most jazz purists). Whether it can be justifiably classified as jazz or not, "Carryin' On" is a somewhat decent example of this period, though maybe not the best place to start. Green's soloing is in fine form here, especially on the two slower numbers, "Hurt So Bad," and "Cease the Bombing." However, Green's own composition, "Upshot" is sloppily executed and treads on the same tired groove for nearly ten minutes. Fans of "Green Is Beautiful" and the brilliant "Alive" should find this worthwhile, as it does contain some classic inspirational moments from arguably the most underrated jazz guitarist of the century.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This One Is Top Notch!, July 26, 2005

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M. Conklin (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carryin' On (Audio CD)

many jazz critics seem to dismiss a good deal of the later grant green releases - this one included. the biggest complaints i hear or read is that green was going for a more mainstream audience by bypassing the standards and playing the rhythm and blues hits of the time and that he changed his sound by adding more electronic instruments (electric bass and electric piano basically). the thing is, although green did modernize his sound, he didn't do it in a way that would make it sound like dated fusion today. he decided to ignore much of the pop and rock sounds that other jazz bands were heading too, and go for the sounds of straight-up boogaloo. what's remarkable about this release is that the sound has held up extremely well and if you were to hear it today, you'd swear it was one of the hipper groups on the modern scene.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funky Green & Rhodes ! ! !, February 13, 2001

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Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carryin' On (Audio CD)

Fans of Greyboy and other Jam bands... alas', your chance to hear it for real....

It was a few years since I dug this one up. I almost forgot that album featured Rhodes not B-3... which is kinda interesting... although the Rhodes had been around FOREVER prior to making it to the mainstream of funk and fusion in the '70s, kinda when you see "1969" as the release date and its a Grant album, you figure kinda expect a John Patton or Reuben Wilson type thang... but I digress... What we have hear is a VERY funky CD with not only Grant but Idris Muhammad on drums done at the same time that cats like Lou Donaldson and Reuben Wilson were saying, "O.K. we did the Blues thing, we're still bluesy, but now we're diggin' on James Brown !" - - and diggin' on James Brown they were. Though I DON'T WANT NOBODY (et al.) doesn't exactly sound like the original groove, its one mommy of a funked up Jam.

Additional personel include Claude Bartee, tenor; Willie Bivens, vibes, Clarence Palmer and Earl Neal Creque on Rhodes, Jimmy Lewis on bass.

People : Keep your fingers crossed and pray for a reissue of Reuben's Blue Mode and in the meantime go dig some Funk Inc.