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Green Is Beautiful

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Green Is Beautiful
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1970[1]
RecordedJanuary 30, 1970
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length37:33
LabelBlue Note
ProducerFrancis Wolff
Grant Green chronology
Carryin' On
(1969)
Green Is Beautiful
(1970)
Alive!
(1970)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Green Is Beautiful is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label.[4]

Reception

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The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Green Is Beautiful finds the guitarist growing more comfortable with harder, funkier R&B than he seemed on the softer-hued Carryin' On... Green Is Beautiful proves that Green's reinvention as a jazz-funk artist wasn't the misguided disaster it was initially made out to be".[2]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Ain't It Funky Now"James Brown9:58
2."A Day in the Life"John Lennon, Paul McCartney9:02
3."The Windjammer"Neal Creque5:42
4."I'll Never Fall in Love Again"Burt Bacharach, Hal David6:46
5."Dracula"Creque6:05
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on January 30, 1970

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Billboard July 25, 1970
  2. ^ a b Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 17, 2010
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 601. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Grant Green discography accessed September 17, 2010