The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark

The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark is a 1997 compilation album by jazz guitarist Grant Green, collecting together all the tracks from the albums Nigeria, Oleo, and Gooden's Corner, together with one additional tune and two alternate takes from the same recording sessions. The Penguin Guide to Jazz has selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Grant Green except as indicated

Disc one

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
6. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Phil Silvers) - 6:20
7. "Airegin" (alternate take)(Sonny Rollins) - 7:34
8. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislau Kaper, Ned Washington) - 6:25
9. "Shadrack" (Robert MacGimsey) - 6:20
10. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) - 5:40

Disc two

1. "Moon River" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 5:34
2. "Gooden's Corner" - 8:11
3. "Two for One" - 7:38
4. "Oleo" (Sonny Rollins) – 5:35
5. "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 7:12
6. "Tune-Up" (Miles Davis) – 7:17
7. "Hip Funk" – 8:35
8. "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers) – 8:28
9. "Oleo"(alternate take)(Sonny Rollins) - 6:00

• Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on December 23, 1961 (disc one tracks 8-10 and disc two tracks 1-3), January 13, 1962 (disc one tracks 1-7), and January 31, 1962 (disc two tracks 4-9).

Personnel

• Grant Green - guitar
• Sonny Clark - piano
• Sam Jones - bass
• Art Blakey - drums (disc one tracks 1-7)
• Louis Hayes - drums (all other tracks)

References