H5N1 Blue Note album finally reissued on CD inwards early on 2004, Grant Green's Goin' West -- similar Feelin' the Spirit -- includes Herbie Hancock on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, together with Billy Higgins on drums. Includes tunes similar (can yous believe?) "On Top of Old Smokey" together with "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." Only Green could comport this off, but he is the human when it comes to standards.
Tempting equally it is to dismiss this Grant Green album equally the sixties' slant on lite jazz, overriding talent, equally i would expect, has a vogue to compensate for a decided lack of risk taking, the really virtue, considering the lineament of these players, that could receive got elevated Goin' West to a nipper classic. Recorded inwards Nov of 1962 together with shelved until 1969, maybe because of its brevity or the glut of Green releases on the market, Goin' West , if i wanted to labor the point, is genuinely a 3rd of a bike of would-be concept albums cutting past times the guitarist over an 8 calendar month flow afterward Born To Be Blue together with nearly a yr prior to Idle Moments —or, equally they could live co-billed, the infallible Grant Green recordings equally a leader. While The Latin Bit focused on samba styles together with Feelin' the Spirit drew from the one-time Southern hymnals, Goin' West , though nominally a province together with western recording, moves us into the realm of folk music—bluegrass folk music together with clippity-clappity cowboy tunes— non the materials of the Bear Family Bonanza box set, mind, but non altogether different inwards spirit. Considering drummer Billy Higgins had played on Ornette Coleman's showtime Atlantic sessions, bassist Reggie Workman alongside John Coltrane, together with pianist Herbie Hancock would presently piece of occupation out a business office of Miles Davis' virtually adventurous together with best band, the playing could non live to a greater extent than "in." Having said that, it would live difficult to imagine Goin' West beingness a greater delight, a direct forward, unencumbered jazz delight—finesse jazz is a readily applicable moniker. As much equally yous may resent "On Top of Old Smokey" from your grammer schoolhouse days, together with its proliferate versions inwards all mode together with mode of musical genre, the version here, alongside that killer, pulse to the fore audio of Rudy Van Gelder, has what could good brand the shortlist of classic Grant Green solos, a brisk, bluesy, structure that unfurls economically together with incisively alongside the mode together with shape of a narrative, albeit i shot through alongside triplets. H5N1 masterpiece, no—Billy Higgins may fifty-fifty live the existent star of this record—but Goin' West is an intriguing unloose nonetheless—I ofttimes discovery it to live a daily favorite—and electrical flow twenty-four sixty minutes flow MOR fetishists may good receive got their minds blown.
Goin' West has a dull ramblin' blues experience to it. Funky someone jazz primary Grant Green has infused some downward dwelling someone groove into some classic cowboy tunes. Who would receive got idea yous could brand "On Top of one-time smokey" hip together with cool, but Green constitute a way. Yes this is the "on give of one-time smokey, all covered alongside sorrow, I met my sugariness ...." song. Joining Green on this album is a stellar grouping of bluish notation artists. Herbie Hancock plays piano, Billy Higgins plays the drums, together with Reggie Workman plays bass. All 4 musicians brand swell contributions through out, but I only honey crazy, hokie, out on the prarie percussion sounds drummer, Billy Higgins adds. Grant Green went through a curt stage where he tried to infuse someone jazz into a multifariousness of different styles. On the Latin Bit, Latin Jazz was the muse. In "feeling the spirit" gospel music was the inspiration. Here country/cowboy tunes is the theme. Of all of these projects, this i is the wildest together with virtually original together with interesting concept. The other genres aren't genuinely that far from someone jazz to start with. On the other manus at that spot is a pretty big gap betwixt province together with someone jazz, together with its bridged beautifully here. For for sure this is a someone jazz album, non a province album. Country/western is only the inspiration, non the style of this music. This is my favorite Grant Green Album.
This was the showtime Grant Green album I ever bought together with I nonetheless receive got the original on vinyl together with since this is my really lastly review on amazon it is quite appropriate to review "Goin West"
This album was inwards fact recorded i calendar month earlier the to a greater extent than wellknown "gospelalbum" called Feelin the Spirit together with it was the really showtime fourth dimension that Hancock together with Green recorded together. Hancock shines on this recording similar he did on"Feelin the Spirit"..he could alone receive got been some 20 years one-time here..and nonetheless his playing is really mature.Green is playing all songs
alongside that fantastic blues feeling of his together with at times he is really funky.The rythm department hither is Billy Higgins on drums
together with Reggie Workman on bass together with they give a wonderful back upwardly to Green together with Hancock...I e'er liked Workmans bassplaying.
"Smokey" together with " I tin sack t halt loving you" are played really groovy..but my really favourite is "Red River Valley" which is taken inwards an effortless latin groove.
Track listing:
1. "On Top of Old Smokey" (Traditional) – 7:05
2. "I Can't Stop Loving You" (Gibson) – 3:29
3. "Wagon Wheels" (DeRose, Hill) – 6:25
4. "Red River Valley" (Traditional) – 6:08
5. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (Nolan) – 11:05
Personnel:
Grant Green - guitar
Herbie Hancock - piano
Reggie Workman - bass
Billy Higgins - drums
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