Kicks off with the rollicking samba Soy Califa; then a ravishing, bittersweet ballad.
Key Dexter.
Recorded the same week as Go!, with the same crew, including Sonny Clark on top form throughout.
Don’t miss Don’t Explain.
In the Blue Note 80 Vinyl series.

‘Classic Vinyl’ series.

From 1963 — with Wendell Marshall (bass), Willie Bobo (drums), Johnny Acea (piano), Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdes (congas), Gavin Masseaux (chekere); and on the last two Ike Quebec and Sonny Clark.

‘Best of all his Blue Notes… Quebec is on cracking form here, and his pitch and phrasing on Someday My Prince Will Come should be a lesson to all young jazz players. Green has, for us, his finest hour, ripping though My One And Only Love and If I Should Lose You with a ruggedness of emotion that goes hand and hand with the simplicity of diction. Not a single note is wasted’ (The Penguin Guide To Jazz).

Idle Moments, Street Of Dreams, The Latin Bit, Grant’s First Stand, I Want To Hold Your Hand.

A mid-seventies pressing: dark blue labels, black ‘b’; VAN GELDER in the run-offs.

‘Classic Vinyl Series.’

The new LP is in the ‘Blue Note Classic Vinyl’ series.

‘Finally available on vinyl, Grant Green’s near perfect slice of jazz funk and soul, recorded live on two cold January nights in 1971. Powerhouse drummer Idris Muhammad and soulful tenor star Houston Person were brought in to supplement Green’s current band featuring Ronnie Foster on organ and Clarence Thomas on soprano and tenor sax; and Blue Note producer Francis Wolff recorded. This treasure was never released, though, till a 2006 CD issue. Sounding incredibly fresh and live, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more real stamping of Grant Green at the top of his game. The LP blends extremely hypnotic and wild funk such as their opening cover of a local funk hit Jan Jan by the Fabulous Counts next to laidback renditions of early 70’s soul favorites Walk On By, Patches, and One More Chance by the Jackson 5. It perfectly captures the magic of hearing a legendary band effortlessly doing their thing in a small club while the audience unwinds after a long work day. Green pulls it all together with his melodic genius and perfect delivery. Great artists make it seem so easy. No pretensions here, just a killer band burning up the stage with unmistakable chemistry. Maybe you can’t go back in time, but if you close your eyes and light a cigarette, you might be convinced you’re sitting in a wood-paneled club on Detroit’s Westside enjoying Grant Green and his band tear it up.’
LP reissue supervised by Third Man, in Detroit.

After two years’ preoccupation with the Miles Davis Quartet, here is Herbie in 1968, ready for the seventies, the old, uptight bebop instincts melting into the balmy, open, innocent textures of fluegelhorn, bass trombone and alto flute, and his own lightly beautiful playing.
‘Classic Vinyl series.’

‘Classic Vinyl Series.’

‘Classic Vinyl Series.’

Takin’ Off, My Point Of View, Inventions & Dimensions, Speak Like A Child, The Prisoner.

Our Thing, In ‘N Out, Inner Urge, The State Of The Tenor Volumes 1 & 2.

‘Classic Vinyl Series.’

His third Blue Note as leader, in 1964, with Kenny Dorham, McCoy Tyner, Richard Davis and Elvin Jones. Rhythmically rooted in Trane, unsurprisingly, but Dorham and especially Henderson go their own searching, purposeful ways. The first three are his own compositions. Ace.