Green Is Beautiful (24bt) (Mlps) [Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered]

Grant Green | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 3, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
• Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
• ASIN: B0000C4GKK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,063 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ain't It Funky Now

2. A Day in the Life

3. The Windjammer

4. I'll Never Fall in Love Again [From Promises, Promises]

5. Dracula

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm tipping the scale here and giving this funky goodness 5, July 28, 2004

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Daddy-o "paintfink" (Beatsville, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green Is Beautiful (Audio CD)

First thing's first- this is Grant Green with Idris Muhammad on drums. These two guys deserve 5 stars just for pairing up. Check out the songs: Aint it Funky Now, Windjammer & Dracula- that's reason enough for me to list this one in my top 20 jazz/funk favorites. Go get it and be happy you did before Blue Note takes away the goods.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Grant and Idris Muhammed, October 27, 2005

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Ben Fernandez (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Is Beautiful (Audio CD)

I like Grant Green's funky period. This is a great cd from that period; and "Carryin' On" is great too. Idris Muhammed is the greatest funky jazz drummer of all time. Essential groove music.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Green Octet, January 4, 2011

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Dennis G. Voss Jr. (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Is Beautiful (MP3 Download)

Presents an octet recording session held by electric jazz guitarist Grant Green in 1970 with Blue Mitchell on trumpet and Claude Bartee on tenor sax backed by organ, electric bass, and three percussionists (including Idris Muhammad on the drum kit). Blue Note featured this performance of Lennon & McCartney's "A Day in the Life" on its compilation CD, Blue Note Plays the Beatles. It's an interesting arrangement of the Beatles number, which in the original is divided into parts with different melodies. In this version, the organ offers a brief prelude to set up the dominant melody ("I saw the news today..."), which Green plays dutifully once before setting off a series of solos (guitar, sax, organ). They then resolve into the second theme ("Woke up, got outta bed...") before Green lets loose a second solo distinct from the first not only because of his playing but also because a gradually rising organ chord behind him adds a hopeless and foreboding feeling that the first, bluesy solo lacked. This guitar/organ sound can be difficult for many modern listeners; I've heard it described as "cheesy" or "creepy" or (more politely) dated. But if you can get past it, some of this stuff is great jazz.