Grant Green - One More Chance (1971 live).wmv

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Artist: Grant Green Album: Live at Club Mozambique Label: Blue Note Personnel: Grant Green (guitar); Clarence Thomas (sopranino saxophone, tenor saxophone); Houston Person (tenor saxophone); Ronnie Foster (organ); Idris Muhammad (drums). 1. Jan Jan 2. Farid 3. Bottom Of The Barrel 4. Walk On By 5. More Today Than Yesterday 6. One More Chance 7. Patches 8. I Am Somebody This is some apotheosis of both jazz-funk and Grant Green, just when you thought Blue Note was practicing overexposure by adding yet another Green disk to last year's three discs worth of funky compilations. But this live session, which spent 35 years in the vault, transcends all previous Grant Green funk sessions by a mile. A lot of the credit has to go to the pluperfect chemistry of the band. Green may have been Blue Note's most erratic artist of the '60s and '70s, but the key to his best work involved matching him with a drummer who kept him steady and on-task. Art Blakey did this for the bop-flavored Green, and Idris Muhammad did it during his funk period. Muhammad enlivened a lot of other Green sessions, though, so part of the magic of this gem needs to be explained by the fiery tenor saxophonist Houston Person and the totally obscure but piercing soprano saxophonist Clarence Thomas, perhaps woodshedding to get through law school (just kidding). The eight tunes are nothing special, often one or two-chord pieces that the band dances around with uncanny creativity. "Walk On By" seems an odd tune in this <b>...</b>

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Grant, Green

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