I Want to Hold Your Hand [Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered]

Grant Green | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
• Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
• ASIN: B00002DF4N
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,657,415 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Want to Hold Your Hand

2. Speak Low

3. Stella by Starlight

4. Corcovado (Quiet Nights)

5. This Could Be the Start of Something

6. At Long Last Love

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Green cookin......Young is not bad either, June 18, 2001

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Anders Jonasson (Bankeryd Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Want to Hold Your Hand (Audio CD)

I can not agree with one of the other reviewers, that this is mediocre one. I have all his records and this one is one of my favourites, that also goes for one of the"Green specialists" the world class player Dave Stryker.In my ears I hear a Grant Green in top shape.Greens tone is more beautiful than ever, his playing is very direct and he is grooving. The best track is "this could be a start of something new" Greens takes chorus after chorus,and digs deeper and deeper into the groove, and his solo is one of his very best ever,it is not easy for Young to do his solo right after Green but he handles it well.It is amazing how much Larry Young must have influenced another of my favourite players, namely Larry Goldings, I think that is very obvious on this CD. It is also pretty easy to understand how much Green has influenced Peter Bernstein when you listen to this CD. yeah .....at least for musicians this recording has been an important one.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice, low-key farewell to a great trio, April 22, 2004

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N. Dorward "obsessive reviewer" (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Want to Hold Your Hand (Audio CD)

The Grant Green/Larry Young/Elvin Jones trio made four discs for Blue Note, the first (Green's _Talkin' About_) on their own, the next three with a succession of guests: Sam Rivers on Young's _Into Something_, Bobby Hutcherson on Green's _Street of Dreams_, & tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley on this disc. Mobley plays very well but he is unmistakeably a bit of an interloper--for the most part he just drops by for an improvised chorus & otherwise stays out of the way of the trio. The program is rather blander than on the other three albums, though Green was the kind of player who could make even banal material sound wonderful. There are no originals, but instead a couple bossas (including a bossa arrangement of the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand"), a couple less-covered tunes by Cole Porter & Steve Allen, & the familiar warhorses "Speak Low" & "Stella by Starlight". The Beatles tune starts out a little too low-key but prompts some surprisingly pungent solos from the players; "Speak Low" hits hard, & the trio feature on "This Could Be the Start of Something New" cooks mightily. The other three tracks are pretty but comparatively uneventful. Hard to claim this as one of Green's shining moments (though I see that someone else has made the effort on this page) but it's a good album nonetheless. Just don't expect fireworks!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good not Great Green, July 8, 2000

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Michael B. Richman (Portland, Maine USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Want to Hold Your Hand (Audio CD)

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" was the fourth album recorded for Blue Note by the power trio of Grant Green, Larry Young and Elvin Jones, and the third under Green's leadership. Whereas Larry Young's "Into Somethin'" and Green's "Street of Dreams" (the second and third albums respectively) are indisputable five star efforts, this one falls a little short. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" adds Hank Mobley to a group that performs all covers/standards, including the Beatles song and Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Corcovado." The album overall is enjoyable, but this lineup was clearly running out of ideas by the time a fourth session rolled along. That being said, it's far more creative than Green's later material on Blue Note.