Track Listing

1. No.1 Green Street
2. 'Round About Midnight
3. Grant's Dimensions
4. Green With Envy
5. Alone Together
6. Green With Envy (Alternate Take)
7. Alone Together (Alternate Take)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26033 in Music
• Brand: Green
• Released on: 2002-08-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
Green Street, recorded on April 1, 1961, was Grant Green's second Blue Note album as a leader and remains one of the finest albums of his prolific Blue Note output. Supported by just Ben Tucker's bass and Dave Bailey's drums, the guitarist seems inspired by the absence of any other chordal instrument. His harmonic and interpretive imagination is in high gear on this unique masterpiece in his discography. Added to the original album are two alternate takes.

Grant Green: Guitar
Ben Tucker: Bass
Dave Bailey

Customer Reviews

A Master Improvisor at Work
This is not only a great guitar album; it's a great jazz album. Grant Green was a master improvisor and on this CD we hear him in just the company of bass and drums. He makes the most of his opportunity. Green's high, bright guitar sound is on display, but it's his constant improvisational ideas which are so fascinating. Green never hurries but weaves his melodic lines together in a coherent way that captures your attention and invites repeat hearings. Bassist Ben Tucker and drummer Dave Bailey provide swinging and unobstrusive support for the leader's lines throughout. Every tune is a highlight, though special mention must be made of "Round About Midnight" and the 2 takes of "Green With Envy" (based on Horace Silver's "Nica's Dream"). The remastering job by Rudy Van Gelder is superb. There is not a dull moment in this highly recommended 54 minute CD.

Forget Easy Street, I'd Live on "Green Street"
For those of you who missed the opportunity to get this fantastic album when it was available domestically in Blue Note's limited edition Connoisseur series, here's another chance thanks to the RVG series. I'm always fascinated by the concept of a guitar jazz trio. I mean it's the same instrumentation as say Nirvana or The Police, and yet the sound is so incredibly different. This power trio of Green, Ben Tucker on bass and Dave Bailey on drums glides through the album's five tunes (and two alternate takes) with smooth licks and excellent musical communication. The three Grant originals and the two standards, Monk's "'Round Midnight" and "Alone Together" are all so good I can't single one out as the best. Since Green's material on Blue Note ranges from everything to hard bop to soul jazz to latin-tinged jazz to funk, it should be metioned that this album is of the solid straight ahead variety. Don't blow the chance again to move in on "Green Street."

On the green side of the street
Green Street truly features one of the greatest jazz guitarists in a trio setting. With Ben Tucker on bass and Dave Bailey on drums this is one of the few albums that Grant Green ever made that truly shows what an amazing soloist and improvisor he really was. The opening track, No. 1 Green Street, is really a masterful solo by Green. It is so amazing how you can really tell how much Grant is getting in to the music he is making. Those trills. Oh! Man! Those TRILLS! This album is one of the finest jazz guitar trio session ever recorded. This is a must for any one only familiar with Grant Green, Wes Montgomery or any one who just really wants a really awesome guitar album.