GRANT GREEN Green Is Beautiful BLUE NOTE FROM 70 FUNKY RARELY SEEN ??????

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  GRANT GREEN Green Is Beautiful BLUE NOTE FROM 70 FUNKY





A MINT MINUS ORIGINAL LP ON BLUE NOTE BST 84342

FROM 1970 IN STEREO

PRODUCED BY FRANCIS WOLFF AND RECORDED BY RUDY VAN GELDER WITH Van Gelder IMPRESSED IN THE DEAD WAX BOTH SIDES

WITH BLUE MITCHELL ON TRUMPET, GRANT ON GUITAR, JIMMY LEWIS ON FENDER BASS, IDRIS MUHAMMAD ON DRUMS, CANDIDO ON CONGA, OTHERS

5 TRACKS INCLUDE AIN'T IT FUNKY NOW, A DAY IN THE LIFE, THE WINDJAMMER, I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN, DRACULA

COVER STOCK WITH LIGHT RUB AND RING WEAR AND AGE DISCOLORATION. CUT TOP RIGHT CORNER. CORNERS WITH SMALL ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT. BOTOTM CORNERS WITH SMALL CRUSH MARKS ON POINT. FRONT SPINE SIDE WITH A SMALL LIGHT SCRATCH LINE TO LEFT OF HIS HANDS. BOTTOM EDGE WITH SOME SMALL ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER RUBS ON EDGE POINT. NOTWITHSTANDING, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, SO PLEASE DO LOOK AT THE COVER PHOTOS TO ASCERTAIN COVER CONDITION.

VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLE. THE HIGH LUSTER VINYL BLANK AT FIRST GLANCE OUT OF THE SLEEVE APPEARS UNUSUALLY PRISTINE AND TO HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYED, MUCH LESS TOUCHED, BEFORE NOW. UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT AND ASSIDUOUS EXAMINATION A FEW LIGHT SURFACE RUBS AND OR SURFACE PAPER SLEEVE CONTACT IMPRESSIONS. WE'VE TEST PLAYED THIS LP ON A PROFESSIONAL SOUND SYSTEM WITH A VPI TURNTABLE WITH A GRADO REFERENCE 1 WOOD CARTRIDGE AND IT WAS A WONDERFUL PLAY AND SOUNDING QUITE FINE HERE. CLEAR, PRESENT AND VIBRANT THROUGHOUT.

RARELY SEEN LP WHICH NOW FETCHES 100 PLUS WHEN SEEING THE LIGHT OF DAY
FROM A NOTED JAZZ REVIEWER'S PRIVATE COLLECTION

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FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
review
by Steve Huey
The second album of Grant Green's thorough jazz-funk makeover, Green Is Beautiful finds the guitarist growing more comfortable with harder, funkier R&B than he seemed on the softer-hued Carryin' On. The switch from Fender Rhodes electric piano back to the more traditional Hammond organ certainly helps give the session a little extra grit, but it doesn't return Green to the land of soul-jazz by any means. Green Is Beautiful is still explicitly commercial and accessible to non-jazz audiences, and (purist objections notwithstanding) that's not necessarily a bad thing. Green's take on James Brown's "Ain't It Funky Now" is one of the funkiest items in his rare-groove period; it may be chordally very simple, but the groove is tight and percolating, and Green, tenor saxophonist Claude Bartee, and trumpeter Blue Mitchell all come up with hot, exciting solos. The album also benefits from Green's discovery of composer and occasional organist Earl Neal Creque, who contributes two bright, slinky, horn-driven originals: "The Windjammer," which became one of the signature tunes of Green's late period, and "Dracula." They help give the album a more original voice, and indicate that Green was actively making himself at home in his new musical environment, not just mixing dull originals with phoned-in covers of pop and R&B hits (as he and many other '70s Blue Note artists were accused of doing). Of course, there are still pop covers present -- the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" is a mellow, mid-tempo groove, and Bacharach's "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" doesn't stray far from the melody. Even if those aren't particularly distinctive, the remainder of Green Is Beautiful proves that Green's reinvention as a jazz-funk artist wasn't the misguided disaster it was initially made out to be.

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