Feelin' the Spirit

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

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724386447128
EAN: 0724386447128
ASIN: B0007M239M

Release Date: 2005-03-01

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Tracks:

Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Joshua Fit De Battle Of Jericho
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
Go Down Moses
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Deep River

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Customer Reviews:

Delightful and at times inspiring.......2006-11-29

I bought this album after hearing "Jericho" on radio, and while I agree with some of the reservations expressed in the other reviews about the quality of Green's performance in these sessions, I found this album surprisingly satisfying. Overall, Green's work is very solid, and often inspired (though at times, admittedly, repetitive). But what really makes the album swing is Grant's backup cast, which picks up energetically wherever Green leaves off. In particular, Green's pianist for the album, a young Herbie Hancock, stands out on nearly all the tracks, and at times nearly steals the show from Green. Green's synergy with his band, and the obvious inspiration that all the players drew from the spirituals that make up the musical core of this record, are well worth owning and listening to repeatedly, and they hold up well to the test of time with many of the era's best sessions.

Great Grant!.......2006-06-24

Grant Green shines brightly performing Gospel with all of the feeling for the blues.
A underated gutarist that just pumped out great Blue Note album after album.
Anyone not up to Grant Green,this is a great place to start.
There is a great line up and the playing is tight.
If you play guitar and are not familir with Grant then get out and listen.
Funny how the hip hop people have head and sampled away at his music for some time now.
Just listento the samples, you will get it!

Grant does Spirituals.......2005-10-27

This is Grant Green and Herbie Hancock doing another of Grant's theme albums, with the theme here being Spirituals. (Sunday Mornin' is the Gospel inspired album.) Anyway, its not straight ahead jazz, but Grant and Herbie play beautifully. And the music is very accessible. If you like Spirituals, you will like this cd, and Grant's albums like this are also a great introduction to jazz guitar music.

Green with piano quartets better than funk stuff?.......2005-10-09

Yet another Rudy Van Gelder recorded masterpiece. With so many great Jazz recordings, he should have his own separate filing category under jazz. I like some of Herbie Hancock's albums, but tend to lose interest with his "evolvement". Green's albums I like more for there accessibility. I know a lot guys who drool over the funk 70's Green, but I often think they miss the complexity of his playing as on these beautiful gems in his piano quartets (other noteworthy albums include "Idle Moments" & "The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark"). Green's solos include what I think are arpeggios; the rapid note repetition he swirls around you are stunning in their movement of the song. Hancock's genius rests in his accompaniment; his notable piano brushstrokes complement some of Green's most subtle playing (though don't miss his piano solo on "Joshua fit the battle of Jericho"). The mood of the album makes you wonder if it was recorded in one of those legendary Blue Note photographs, with musicians surrounded in pitch darkness and cigarette smoke. This group gives added meaning to these gospel tunes ("Go Down Moses"). Billy Higgins, from Ornette Coleman's band, plays drums.

Im feelin it !!!.......2005-04-26

What an amazing record even by Grant Green standards!!! The long guitar improvisations are filled with deep feelin in every note, not a moment it gets tiresome in here. Herbie Hancock is a revelation in this album, playing down home like I ve never heard him before, what an incredible musician. And if that is not enough you got the great Billy Higgins on drums, what else can you ask for? This is one of the great Grant Green albums, in my top 3.

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