Green Is Beautiful

Green Is Beautiful Artist: Grant Green
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724382826521
EAN: 0724382826521
ASIN: B000005GWU


Release Date: 1994-03-08

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Listmania:

  1. Grant Green Guide
  2. Idris Muhammad- "The Original Funky Drummer"
  3. Blue Note's Rare Groove Series
  4. More Rare Funk !

Tracks:

  1. Ain't If Funky Now
  2. A Day In The Life
  3. The Windjammer
  4. I'll Never Love Again
  5. Dracula

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Grant and Idris Muhammed .......2005-10-27

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.

5 out of 5 stars I'm tipping the scale here and giving this funky goodness 5 .......2004-07-28

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.

3 out of 5 stars Grant Green's Funky Period.......2001-01-13

Excellent version of "Ain't it Funky Now" w/Blue Mitchell (tpt).

2 out of 5 stars A one track wonder.......2000-08-15

I'm an avid Grant Green fan, with 7 of his albums already in my collection. This is a weak CD and only two tracks caught my ears. "Ain't it funky now" is a standard jazz-funk number driven by Idris Muhammed's peerless drumming, however his version of Lennon/McCartneys "A day in the life" is something altogether better.

After an unpromising start in which Green states the theme a couple of times, the band soars off into the most uplifting improvisation, starting with Green and ending with an excellent saxophone solo, buoyed up by some rare rythym playing.

Is it worth the money? Well, there are better Grant Green CDs in Amazon's catalogue, but for die-hard Grant Green fans and guitarists hunting novel licks, this might be worth buying.

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