Pre-Order Thread

Damn, this line up and track listing is fire.

Guitarist Grant Green was prolific on Blue Note through the early-60s recording more than 20 hard bop and soul jazz sessions as a leader forthe label between1961-1965. By the time Green returned to the label in 1969 his musical style had evolved to wholly embrace jazz-funk as first heard on his album Carryin’ On. As the decade turned to 1970, Green was in back in Van Gelder Studio that January to record his vibrant album Green Is Beautiful, which remains one of the highlights of the era with the guitarist joined by Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Claude Bartee on tenor saxophone, Emmanuel Riggins and Neal Creque on organ, Jimmy Lewis on bass, Idris Muhammad on drums, Candido Camero on congas, and Richie Landrum on bongos. Throughout Green’s distinctive tone shines on this grooving 5-song set that opens with a 10-minute funk workout on James Brown’s “Ain’t It Funky Now” and includes covers of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” and Burt Bacharach’s “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” as well as two memorable originals by Creque: “The Windjammer” and “Dracula.”

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Tracklist:

A1: Ain't It Funky Now
A2: A Day In The Life
A3: The Windjammer

B1: I'll Never Fall In Love Again
B2: Dracula
 
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I swear Newbury must have just bought that whole album. I can’t remember a time they didn’t have some variant of that.
 
Boom Boom


Probably gonna bite on the bundle with Azymuth and Johnny Hammond
 
I think this was available before from another source but seems like shipping better now on bandcamp?



There was a go fund me type campaign on Bandcamp that went well over the target...was supposed to ship in May, mine should finally be here on Tuesday...These might be the leftovers they were going to take on tour which they recently cancelled or they pressed a bunch of extras? This album is fantastic and I'm so happy they finally reissued this!
 
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There was a go fund me type campaign on Bandcamp that went well over the target...was supposed to ship in May, mine should finally be here on Tuesday...These might be the leftovers they were going to take on tour which they recently cancelled or they pressed a bunch of extras? This album is fantastic and I'm so happy they finally reissued this!
Annnnnnnnnd it's already gone

EDIT: my mistake, it's still available!
 
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