Grant Green / Matador 1979
This album was recorded in 1964 but was not released on the Blue Note label in Japan until 1979. It features pianist McCoy Tyner, drummer Elvin Jones, and bassist Bob Cranshaw and Green. Why it took so many years from recording to release, I don’t know. If you have any ideas, please let me know!
It is not surprising since McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones are performing, and when I first listened to this "My Favorite Things," I had the same impression as John Coltrane's version. However, after listening to it several times, I realized that his restrained performance gave this track a different feel, and I also came to love Grant Green's version. The sidemen well supported Grant Green, and this album is another of his masterpiece🎸💎
Grant Green - guitar
McCoy Tyner - piano
Bob Cranshaw - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
Side 1
"Matador" (Grant Green) – 10:51
"My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 10:23
Side 2
"Green Jeans" (Grant Green) – 9:10
"Bedouin" (Duke Pearson) – 11:41
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One of the greatest gifts of constantly traveling (aside from the obvious lol), is that while waiting for trains and planes I get lots of time to listen to amazing music, and to contemplate lots of amazing ideas. Digging back into Wassily Kandinsky and connecting with some of his ideas surrounding art and spirituality. Octavia Butler said “All that you touch. You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.”. I am always willing to be changed; transformed by powerful ideas and concepts and to be used as a vessel for that force that some call God. Others call it Love, or Divine Intelligence. I am a servant willing to use the tools of music that I have been given to inspire, uplift, and heal the planet and all life on it. Maestro Pablo Casals said “I am a man first and an artist second. As an artist, my job is to defend human dignity which I will do through music”. Maestra Niña Simone said “How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it?”. Baba John Coltrane said “I want to be a force for real good”. This is what it’s about for me!
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Damn right, you’ve seen this album in my feed before. But if there’s one occasion worthy of repetition it’s today’s announcement by @bluenoterecords of the two Tone Poet special vinyl editions of “Blue Train” that will be released Sept. 16 just in time for the 65th anniversary of the making of what happens to be my favorite album on the label.
The release of a single LP mono pressing will be complimented by a 2-LP stereo edition, with the second disc featuring seven alternate and incomplete takes. If this isn’t every Coltrane disciple’s wet dream, I don’t know what is.
I’ve owned several versions of “Blue Train” over the years, from a 1970s UA stereo pressing and a Japanese King mono issue to a 1960s mono with NY labels. Five years ago, I scored this pristine 1958 original mono pressing on eBay and never looked back.
With this album, Trane made good on a promise to Alfred Lion to cut a session for Blue Note, and Lion in return afforded the saxophonist the time, space and manpower to create something very special. This was one of Coltrane’s first sessions after kicking his heroin habit, and his newfound freedom and utmost focus are evident in both his playing and writing. Fire breathing trumpeter #LeeMorgan and sublime trombonist #CurtisFuller join Trane in the frontline, and in the rhythm section we have pianist #KennyDrew, bassist #PaulChambers and drummer #PhillyJoeJones.
The music featured on this album makes “Blue Train” the ultimate hard bop record. Coltrane’s originals (“Blue Train,” “Moment’s Notice”, “Locomotion” and “Lazy Bird”) have become jazz standards, and Trane’s take on the Mercer-Kern composition “I’m Old Fashioned” is one of the most perfect renderings of this tune ever put on tape. While not as adventurous as Coltrane’s later work for Impulse, “Blue Train” is a stroke of genius, packed with brilliant performances that are very accessible. If you want to hip a friend to jazz, play them this album. They will thank you for it.
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“This is Thelonious Monk’s music—an album emphasizing fresh versions of some of his most notable compositions, as played with great skill, respect, and enthusiasm by top jazz musicians. Monk, throughout a long struggle for fitting recognition, has at least been fortunate in one important aspect: a substantial body of performers had always been aware of the originality, significance, and validity of his music and been eager for opportunities to play alongside him. To work with Monk is a challenge, both because of demands his music makes on players and because he is an unrelenting perfectionist; but this is the sort of challenge that talented and properly self-confident men appreciate and enjoy.” The rice paper had contracted around this LP, requiring me to carefully tear one side to free it. I’m not sure if I was the first person to spin this copy, but certainly the first in a very long time. Thelonious Monk, Ray Copeland, Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Gigi Gryce, Wilbur aware, and Art Blakey in Monk’s Music, Riverside Records, mono (2nd pressing) 1958. #instagood#newyork#picoftheday#love#vinyl#music#art#follow#happy#photography#photooftheday#jazz#jazzvinyl#jazzvinylcollector#jazzvinyljunkie#jazzmusic#records#recordstores#recordcollection#recordoftheday#vinyligclub#vinylcollection#vinylcommunity#vinyladdict#igers#vinyloftheday#theloniousmonk#johncoltrane#artblakey#riversiderecords