I Want to Hold Your Hand

I Want to Hold Your Hand Artist: Grant Green
Label: Blue Note Japan
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988006729780
ASIN: B000025YIA


Release Date: 2000-11-22

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Tracks:

  1. I Want to Hold Your Hand
  2. Speak Low
  3. Stella by Starlight
  4. Corcovado (Quiet Nights)
  5. This Could Be the Start of Something
  6. At Long Last Love

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Grant & Co. Know How To Hold Your Attention.......2005-11-09

Years ago,I used to hear the title tune,'I Want To Hold Your Hand' played constantly on local jazz radio;so I was pretty sure I wasn't alone in thinking it was my favorite number played by a great jazz guitarist.Green,along with Hank Mobley on tenor sax,Larry Young on organ and Elvin Jones on drums do this in a medium tempo with a beautifully done balanced attack by all the cats.The entire album is basically medium-tempo,but turns it up for 'Speak Low'. This is my favorite Grant Green album-and I don't think anybody ever played guitar better.

3 out of 5 stars Another Collaboration with Larry Young.......2005-10-27

If you liked "Talkin' About," you may like this one too. Fans of "Street of Dreams" also might like this one. For me, it was a little too mellow, and a little too pop sounding, so I ended up selling it.

4 out of 5 stars I Want To Hold Your Hand, (a guitarist's album).......2005-03-20

I Want To Hold Your hand is an album by Grant Green that was made because Green wanted to and said that he took the route that Wes Montgomery did, covering pop tunes and gaining more recognition. Sadly, unlike Montgomery, Green didn't have any popular success with these albums, but they make for very nice swinging sets.

This album is truely an album for guitarists to study if they are learning jazz guitar. Listen to his sound and his dexterity. Other than that, this album is far from the greatest album in Green's cataloge.

The opener, I Want To Hold Your Hand is very beautiful. It took me a while to figure out what song it was from hearing it, but that was just because of Green's gift for song interpertation. The song definately sounds like a 1960's Bachelor music hit, but unfortunately it was not. Maybe due to lack of distribution, and it being on a strictly jazz label as where Montgomery's hits were on A&M Records.

As the rather boring, bossa nova craze was sweaping the country it had its ties and impact on jazzers. Corcovado (Quiet Nights) written by who else, but Antonio Carlos Jobim, swings. The best of the rest are Speak Low and Stella By Starlight.

The neat trio consisting of Larry Young on organ, Elvin Jones, (RIP) on drums, and Green on guitar are complimented with Hank Mobley on tenor who dropped by for the session. This is somewhat of a classic, but there is much more by Green to check out. Idle Moments, Street Of Dreams, Green Street, Solid, and many more during his run on Blue Note Records.

3 out of 5 stars Nice, low-key farewell to a great trio.......2004-04-23

The Grant Green/Larry Young/Elvin Jones trio made four discs for Blue Note, the first (Green's _Talkin' About_) on their own, the next three with a succession of guests: Sam Rivers on Young's _Into Something_, Bobby Hutcherson on Green's _Street of Dreams_, & tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley on this disc. Mobley plays very well but he is unmistakeably a bit of an interloper--for the most part he just drops by for an improvised chorus & otherwise stays out of the way of the trio. The program is rather blander than on the other three albums, though Green was the kind of player who could make even banal material sound wonderful. There are no originals, but instead a couple bossas (including a bossa arrangement of the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand"), a couple less-covered tunes by Cole Porter & Steve Allen, & the familiar warhorses "Speak Low" & "Stella by Starlight". The Beatles tune starts out a little too low-key but prompts some surprisingly pungent solos from the players; "Speak Low" hits hard, & the trio feature on "This Could Be the Start of Something New" cooks mightily. The other three tracks are pretty but comparatively uneventful. Hard to claim this as one of Green's shining moments (though I see that someone else has made the effort on this page) but it's a good album nonetheless. Just don't expect fireworks!

5 out of 5 stars E-S-S-E-N-T-I-AL.......2003-12-15

This is jazz guitarists finest session, surprisingly he turns somo pop tunes into 1st rate improvisational jazz. His best!!!

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