Grant Green
Funky Friday with Grant Green
Funky Grant Green Jazz
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Building on Cody's "incredible post":http://mog.com/Cody_B/blog_post/129281 of sampled breakbeats, here is a famous organ sound that was sampled by a few classic early '90's hip-hoppers.Grant Green and a live band, playing in some club in NJ, laying the root down on some electric guitar jazz in a funky way.
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Grant Green
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In the '70s, guitarist Grant Green turned to an R&B and funk style in order to keep up with the times and invite as wide an audience as possible. At the time, critics cried foul at what they called "selling out" and disavowed Green from their critical radar. Fast forwarding to the '90s, this period of Green's career became in great demand as the "acid jazz" craze came into vogue. BLUE BREAKBEAT...
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Classic Beautiful Grant Green-ness
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Album:Ain't it Funky Now
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This track has been on non-stop rotation ever since I found it days ago (on that ahem other music discovery site). It's a cover tune originally done by The Stylists and is not frequently cited as one of the classic Green numbers. Nevertheless, this track and album epitomize Green's style: a perfect blend of hey soul classic sound with hard-hitting blues and funk breaks. Sure, I'm totally enamor...
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Speeing up Windjammer
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This is a great song, and one that I've heard countless times from small jazz/funk bands on both coasts. This version in particular gets me because it's considerably faster than Grant's studio version. Not to mention the how tight the band is keeping the rhythm going for 10+ minutes. The amount of time Grant has to lead in this lets him show all his different funk styles. Though check out some
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Lullaby of the Leaves
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One of my favorite Grant Green tunes. It's "Baby Face" Willette's organ playing as much as Grant's guitar work that really does it for me on this one. Off his first album, I think it sets the tone for one of the best, if not the best (sorry Wes), Jazz guitarists ever. This is also a great example of the talent Blue Note and Grant Green pulled together for all of his albums. Every musician o...
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Saturday Sample - Marco Polo and Dr. Dre/Grant Green
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So for today's sample, I decided to go with one sample and two producers that both flipped it in different ways. The source is Grant Green's "Maybe Tomorrow," which Marco Polo spun to make "Nostalgia" with Masta Ace, while Dre flipped an entirely different part on "Still D.R.E." with Snoop. Marco Polo feat. Masta Ace - "Nostalgia" Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg - "Still D.R.E." Grant Green - "Maybe
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