Nigeria (album)

Nigeria
Studio album by Grant Green
Released 1980
Recorded January 13, 1962
Genre Jazz
Length 37:10
Label Blue Note
Producer Alfred Lion
Grant Green chronology
Gooden's Corner
(1961)		 Nigeria
(1962)		 Oleo
(1962)

Nigeria is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1962 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1980.[1] The tracks were also released in 1997 as part of The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

The Allmusic review by Michael Erlewine awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "Just classic Green".[2]

Track listing

  1. "Airegin" (Sonny Rollins) - 7:32
  2. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 10:20
  3. "I Concentrate on You" (Cole Porter) - 5:40
  4. "The Things We Did Last Summer" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:54
  5. "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 7:44
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on January 13, 1962

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Grant Green discography accessed September 16, 2010
  2. ^ a b Erlewine, M. Allmusic Review accessed September 16, 2010