Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark

Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark

ASIN: B000005H9T

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Over a five-week period in early 1962, Grant Green recorded three amazing quartet sessions with Sonny Clark on piano, Sam Jones on bass, and Louis Hayes or Art Blakey on drums. As magnificent as the results were, the three albums, considered too progressive for Green's soul-jazz following, languished in the vaults for 18 years. In 1980, "Airegin," the session with Blakey, came out in the United States, while the two with Hayes ("Gooden's Corner" and "Oleo") came out only in Japan. Later issued briefly on Mosaic with three bonus tracks, they have since become collectors' items of legendary proportions. Now Blue Note is finally making them available on this specially-priced 2-CD set. Some of the best music Grant Green ever recorded. [Super Bit Mapping]

THE COMPLETE QUARTETS WITH SONNY CLARK includes the albums AIREGIN, GOODEN'S CORNER and OLEO as well as 3 additional tracks.

Tracks:

Airegin
It Ain't Necessarily So
I Concentrate On You
The Things We Did Last Summer
The Song Is You
Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
Airegin (ALT TK)
On Green Dolphin Street
Shadrack
What Is This Thing Called Love

Tracks:

Moon River
Gooden's Corner
Two For One
Oleo
Little Girl Blue
Tune Up
Hip Funk
My Favorite Things
Oleo (ALT TK)

Album Description

Over a five-week period in early 1962, Grant Green recorded three amazing quartet sessions with Sonny Clark on piano, Sam Jones on bass, and Louis Hayes or Art Blakey on drums. As magnificent as the results were, the three albums, considered too progressive for Green's soul-jazz following, languished in the vaults for 18 years. In 1980, "Airegin," the session with Blakey, came out in the United States, while the two with Hayes ("Gooden's Corner" and "Oleo") came out only in Japan. Later issued briefly on Mosaic with three bonus tracks, they have since become collectors' items of legendary proportions. Now Blue Note is finally making them available on this specially-priced 2-CD set. Some of the best music Grant Green ever recorded. [Super Bit Mapping]

THE COMPLETE QUARTETS WITH SONNY CLARK includes the albums AIREGIN, GOODEN'S CORNER and OLEO as well as 3 additional tracks.

Customer Reviews:

2 albums brought together.......2006-05-02

This album is comprised of "Nigeria" and "Gooden's Corner", both out of print until this CD was released.
The interplay of the piano and guitar is great, and Green's sound is very crisp while still remaining cool and laid back.

If you enjoy this check out "Idle Moments" from Green and "Leapin' & Lopin'" from Sonny Clark

Another Must Have.......2005-10-27

This is another great Grant Green album. Here he is with Sonny Clark playing straight ahead jazz. If you like jazz guitar, this is one of the cd's you must own. It contains a number of great jazz standards, like Airegin, Oleo, Tune Up and My Favorite Things. The playing is excellent throughout, and it is a 19 song double album. What more could you ask for?

You like Grant Green? Get this CD at all costs!.......2005-09-23

I have always loved Grant Green's music. Not a big fan of the sell-out years where he tried to cross over into commercial success. Wes did it, Grant never quite managed to do anything but "sell out" in my opinion. And the music suffered. But that's not this CD...

This CD is straight-ahead jazz. Pure, solid, grooving, dramatic, powerful, inspirational, and just a true pleasure to listen to. Every member in the band plays like they've known each other since the womb. So very, very tight. Grant and Sonny are almost too nice to each other. They both try very hard to accomidate the other and make sure they have space to play. And when comping, Sonny and Grant compliment each other in a way that only true chemistry can create.

Grant's sound is very typical on this one. Signature single-note lines, not many chordal phrases. When i say, "typical" I mean typical of his greatest playing. I easily put this recording up there with Idle Moments.

My favourite track on the CD is,"It Ain't Necessarily So." The interplay between Grant and Sonny will just make you beam with happiness. Every time Grant tries to hand the lead off to Sonny, Sonny eggs him on verbally with, "go, just go!" And Grant anwers with some heartfelt passion and always finds a way to push himself. Grant shows off his incredible ability to flawlessly drag his notes on this CD too. His playing always seems so simple, but he's really a smart and knowledgeable player.

This is one of my desert island discs. You just can't go wrong popping this set into the player. Never lets you down. Simply put, if you're a fan of Grant's more straight-ahead, non-funkified music, then you will probably want to pick this CD set up.

Delicate and Classic: A Standard for Jazz Playing.......2004-03-15

This is a wonderful album that shows the musical potential of the guitar as a single-note jazz instrument. Grant Green went on to play much "funkier" jazz, but this album has the clean elegant sound of classic jazz music. In that way it is reminiscent of one of the great jazz albums of the late '50s, the Sonny Clark Trio's self-titled album. The parallel is no suprise, since Grant Green is here playing with Sonny Clark. As well as offering a variety of delicate renderings of standard tunes (--I especially like "I Concentrate on You"--) this album demonstrates one important way that the guitar and piano can play together. (Both are chordal instruments, and can clash in a band, but here Green uses the guitar to play only single notes, more like a horn would normally do.) This is an excellent album that I listen to regularly without ever tiring of it.

Simplicity is Next to Perfection..........2003-08-26

This album is a must for the novice and master jazz guitarist alike. Sometimes as guitarist we think that the more notes we play the better. Grant Green shows us in this 2 disc vol. just how much you can "say" musically without using overly complex & mind-boggling lines. Sometimes simple is the way to go (simple- as far as jazz masters go).

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