Green Is Beautiful

Green Is Beautiful is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label.^[2]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Green Is Beautiful finds the guitarist growing more comfortable with harder, funkier R&B than he seemed on the softer-hued Carryin' On... Green Is Beautiful proves that Green's reinvention as a jazz-funk artist wasn't the misguided disaster it was initially made out to be".^[1]

Track listing

1. "Ain't It Funky Now" (James Brown) - 9:58
2. "A Day in the Life" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 9:02
3. "The Windjammer" (Neal Creque) - 5:42
4. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 6:46
5. "Dracula" (Creque) - 6:05

• Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on January 30, 1970

Personnel

• Grant Green - guitar
• Blue Mitchell - trumpet
• Claude Bartee - tenor saxophone
• Neal Creque (track 3), Emmanuel Riggins (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5) - organ
• Jimmy Lewis - electric bass
• Idris Muhammad - drums
• Candido Camero - conga
• Richie "Pablo" Landrum - bongos

References