BST 84413

 Grant Green - Shades Of Green

Released - 1972

Recording and Session Information

United Artists Studios, Los Angeles, CA, November 23, 1971;
overdubbed at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, December 16 & 17, 1971
Billy Wooten, vibes; Emmanuel Riggins, electric piano, Clavinet; Grant Green, guitar; Wilton Felder, electric bass; Nesbert "Stix" Hooper, drums; King Errisson, congas; Harold Caldwell, percussion; + overdubs: Joe Newman, Victor Paz, Jimmy Sedlar, Joe Wilder, trumpet; Harry DiVito, trombone; Dick Hickson, bass trombone; Jim Buffington, French horn; Phil Bodner, John Leone, George Marge, Romeo Penque, woodwinds; Wade Marcus, arranger.

8904 California Green
8907 In The Middle
8900 Medley: I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing / Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself / Cold Sweat

United Artists Studios, Los Angeles, CA, November 24, 1971;
overdubbed at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, December 16 & 17, 1971
Billy Wooten, vibes; Emmanuel Riggins, electric piano, Clavinet; Grant Green, guitar; Wilton Felder, electric bass; Nesbert "Stix" Hooper, drums; King Errisson, congas; Harold Caldwell, percussion; + overdubs: Joe Newman, Victor Paz, Jimmy Sedlar, Joe Wilder, trumpet; Harry DiVito, trombone; Dick Hickson, bass trombone; Jim Buffington, French horn; Phil Bodner, John Leone, George Marge, Romeo Penque, woodwinds; Wade Marcus, arranger.

8905 If You Really Love Me
8906 Cast Your Fate To The Wind
8901 Sunrise, Sunset
8902 Never My Love
8903 Got To Be There

Track Listing

Side One
Title	Author	Recording Date
Medley: I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing / Cold Sweat	James Brown	November 23 1971
Sunrise, Sunset	Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick	November 24 1971
Never My Love	Donald Adrissi, Richard Addrisi	November 24 1971
Got to Be There	Elliot Willensky	November 24 1971
Side Two
California Green	Grant Green	November 23 1971
If You Really Love Me	Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright	November 24 1971
Cast Your Fate to the Wind	Vince Guaraldi	November 24 1971
In the Middle	Alfred Ellis, Buddy Hobgood	November 23 1971

Liner Notes

Green comes in a tot of shades: Apple...Bottle...California...and Grant.

If you own the record albums "Feelin' The Spirit," "Goin' West" and "Visions," then you already know about the shades of Grant Green. Now here are some new colors spun by the incredible St.-Louis-born guitarist. As usual, fantastic pickings.

Back-porch guitar pickin' may be all right, but the vision is sometimes limited to clothes lines and the white-washed fence. Grant Green does his pickin' on the front porch, from which he can survey the whole horizon — and all of the greens Nature and Art can spread out. At one Grant even jumps up on the roof to paint a brand new musical picture of "Sunrise, Sunset." Watch it, for right in the middle of this Broadway tune when you are least expecting it, Grant will hit you in the head with a funky cadenza. But that is like Grant Green. No cliches! Nothing borrowed! And none of that figuring out what's coming next. Instead, the jazz master lets you see and hear, from his front porch, some evergreens ("Never My Love," "Cast Your Fate To The Wind," already mentioned "Sunrise, Sunset") and some brand new greens, including Grant's own blues about "California Green." The opening medley "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing, Open Up The Door" and "Cold Sweat"' get things started.

While this is Grant's show, it is greatly enhanced by the Wade Marcus framing. The settings are imaginative and tasteful, and each is stamped with the arranging genius of Mr. Marcus. The supporting cast reads like a Who's Who in Music. The show was commissioned by George Butler, who has also provided the gallery.

So, if you like some of the greatest guitar playing some new shades of Green, add this one to your Art collection.

At my house, Grant me Green.

Loonis McGlohon
Creative Music Director
Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company