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| Matador |
| Grant Green |
| első megjelenés éve: 1979 |
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| (1998)
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1 Matador
Composed By Grant Green
10:52
2 My Favorite Things
Composed By Rodgers-Hammerstein
10:24
3 Green Jeans
Composed By Grant Green
9:10
4 Bedouin
Composed By Duke Pearson
11:41
Bonus Track
5 Wives And Lovers
Composed By Bacharach, David
9:02
Bass – Bob Cranshaw
Drums – Elvin Jones
Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
Guitar – Grant Green
Piano – McCoy Tyner
Producer [Original Session] – Alfred Lion
Transferred By [Digital Transfers] – Ron McMaster
Recorded on May 20, 1965 at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
# 1-4 previously issued only in Japan.
# 5 is previously unissued.
Issued in digipak with a 12-page booklet (English and French linear notes).
Grant Green recorded so much high-quality music for Blue Note during the first half of the '60s that a number of excellent sessions went unissued at the time. Even so, it's still hard to figure out why 1964's Matador was only released in Japan in 1979, prior to its U.S. CD reissue in 1990 -- it's a classic and easily one of Green's finest albums. In contrast to the soul-jazz and jazz-funk for which Green is chiefly remembered, Matador is a cool-toned, straight-ahead modal workout that features some of Green's most advanced improvisation, even more so than his sessions with Larry Young. Part of the reason for that is that Green is really pushed by his stellar backing unit: pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Elvin Jones. Not only is Green leading a group that features one-half of the classic Coltrane Quartet, but he even takes on Coltrane's groundbreaking arrangement of "My Favorite Things" -- and more than holds his own over ten-plus minutes. In fact, every track on the album is around that length; there are extended explorations of two Green originals ("Green Jeans" and the title track) and Duke Pearson's Middle Eastern-tinged "Bedouin," plus the bonus cut "Wives and Lovers," a swinging Bacharach pop tune not on the Japanese issue. The group interplay is consistently strong, but really the spotlight falls chiefly on Green, whose crystal-clear articulation flourishes in this setting. And, for all of Matador's advanced musicality, it ends up being surprisingly accessible. This sound may not be Green's claim to fame, but Matador remains one of his greatest achievements.
---Steve Huey, All Music Guide
Includes liner notes by Michael Cuscuna |
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