Grantstand

Grantstand
Grantstand
Studio album by Grant Green
Released	April 1962
Recorded	August 1, 1961; Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre	Soul jazz, jazz blues
Length	42:30
Label	Blue Note; BST 84086
Producer	Alfred Lion
Grant Green chronology

Grantstand is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1961 and released on the Blue Note label in 1962.^[2] The CD reissue released in 1987 features one bonus track from the same session.

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[5]

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4 stars and stated "if you're looking for Green the soul-jazz groovemaster, Grantstand is an excellent place to find him".^[3]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Grant Green except as indicated

"Grantstand" – 9:03
"My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 9:06
"Blues in Maude's Flat" – 15:00
"Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) – 4:11
"Green's Greenery" – 5:10 [Bonus track on CD reissue]

Personnel[]

Grant Green – guitar
Yusef Lateef – tenor saxophone (except track 4), flute (track 2)
Brother Jack McDuff – organ
Al Harewood – drums
Ben Tucker – bass

References[]

^ Schwann-1, Records, Tapes, 1976
^ Grant Green discography accessed September 15, 2010
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 15, 2010
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 598. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[1] Schwann-1, Records, Tapes, 1976

[Green_discography-2] Grant Green discography accessed September 15, 2010

[Allmusic-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 15, 2010

[4] Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.

[Penguin-5] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 598. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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show v t Grant Green
Studio albums	Grant's First Stand (1961) Green Street (1961) Sunday Mornin' (1962) Grantstand (1962) The Latin Bit (1963) Feelin' the Spirit (1963) Am I Blue (1964) Idle Moments (1965) Talkin' About! (1965) His Majesty King Funk (1965) I Want to Hold Your Hand (1966) Street of Dreams (1967) Goin' West (1969) Carryin' On (1970) Green Is Beautiful (1970) Visions (1971) Shades of Green (1971) Iron City (1972) The Main Attraction (1976) Easy (1978) Matador (1979) Solid (1979) Remembering (1980) Gooden's Corner (1980) Nigeria (1980) Oleo (1980) Born to Be Blue (1985) The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark (1997) Blues for Lou (1999) First Session (2001)
Live albums	Alive! (1970) Live at The Lighthouse (1972) Live at Club Mozambique (2006)
Soundtrack albums	The Final Comedown (1972)
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show v t Yusef Lateef
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader	Jazz for the Thinker (1957) Jazz Mood (1957) Before Dawn (1957) Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1957) Prayer to the East (1957) The Sounds of Yusef (1957) Other Sounds (1957) Lateef at Cranbrook (1958) The Dreamer (1959) The Fabric of Jazz (1959) Cry! – Tender (1959) Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef\|Contemplation (1960) The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (1960) The Centaur and the Phoenix (1960) Lost in Sound (1961) Eastern Sounds (1961) Into Something (1961) Jazz 'Round the World (1963) Live at Pep's (1964) 1984 (1965) Psychicemotus (1965) A Flat, G Flat and C (1966) The Golden Flute (1966) The Complete Yusef Lateef (1967) The Blue Yusef Lateef (1968) Yusef Lateef's Detroit (1969) The Diverse Yusef Lateef (1969) Suite 16 (1970) The Gentle Giant (1971) Hush 'N' Thunder (1972) Part of the Search (1973) 10 Years Hence (1974) The Doctor Is In... and Out (1976) Autophysiopsychic (1977) In a Temple Garden (1979) In Nigeria (1983) Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony (1987)
Split album	Stable Mates (with A. K. Salim, 1957)
With others	The Complete RCA Victor Recordings of Dizzy Gillespie (1940s) Byrd Jazz (Donald Byrd, 1955) Autumn Leaves (Cannonball Adderley, 1963) Nippon Soul (Cannonball Adderley, 1963) That's Right! (Nat Adderley, 1960) My Kinda Swing (Ernestine Anderson, 1960) 1st Bassman (Paul Chambers, 1960) Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960) Images of Curtis Fuller (1960) Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef (1960) Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited (Charles Mingus, 1960) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Color Changes (Clark Terry, 1960) Soulnik (Doug Watkins, 1960) Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960) Grantstand (Grant Green, 1961) The African Beat (Art Blakey and The Afro-Drum Ensemble, 1962) The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962) Cannonball in Europe! (Cannonball Adderley, 1962) Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962) Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (A. K. Salim, 1964) Invitation to Openness (Les McCann, 1971) Homeless Brother (Don McLean, 1974) Double Time (Leon Redbone, 1977) Something You Got (Art Farmer, 1977)
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