Visions

Great Cd by Master Jazz Guitar Artist Grant Green. Enjoyed by Folks like Me Who Can't Get Enough of this Lost Genre. Some Folks Will love It. Unfortunately, the Straight Ahead Jazz Fans will Hate it. Too Bad They Could Never Appreciate the Message from Grant and The Many Other Jazz Giants Who Experimented With Pop and Rock Songs Adding The Flavor and Taste of Jazz. Their Music Was Blocked by the Jazz Stations, Who Insisted these Jazz Artists Record Only Original Straight Ahead Jazz. So Tracks like these and Hundred's of Others, Went Unheard on Radio. Producing No Hits, No Exposure, and Very Little Sales If Any! Mostly Limited Numbers of Lp's and Promo's were Ever Pressed, and Always Paid by the Artists Themselves. The Stations Wanted the Jazz Artists to Play for a Hand Full of Jazz People, in Comparison to the Massive Pop, Rock & Easy Listeners. To Just Play Boring Straight Ahead Jazz! Here is Just Some of the Great Jazz Musicians Like Grant that Dared to Cross the Line. Recording Some of the Best Sounds You've Never Heard, And Just Part of the Un-Told Pop Rock/Jazz Story! Artists Like Bud Shank, Bill Perkins, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, Bobby Bryant, Charlie Byrd, Larry Coryell, Gerald Wilson, Don Ellis, Paul Horn, Victor Feldman, Gil Fuller & Dizzy Gillespie, Bobbi Humphrey, Woody Herman, Ken Jensen & Beverly Ryman, AKA Ken & Beverly, Charles Mc Phearson, Les Mc Cann, Pat Metheny, Herbie Mann, The Soulful Strings, Sonny Stitt, Lee Morgan, Hugh Masekela, Jimmy Smith, Stanley Turrentine, Oliver Nelson, Joe Pass, Dave Pell, Wes Montgomery Ernest Maxin, Kai Winding, Howard Roberts, Freddie Robinson, John Klemmer, Ramsey Lewis & Trio, The Jazz Crusaders, Young Holt Trio, Gabor Szabo, Joesph Weiss, George Junda, Pete Jolly, Cal Tjader, Quincy Jones, Johnny Keating, Eddie Harris, Phil Upchurch, Dave Pike, George Benson, Tito Puente, Quartette Tres Bien, Johnny Dankworth, Buddy Rich, Ben Ditosti, Mongo Santamaria, Grover Washington, and Stan Kenton. All these Artists and Many Others Stepped Outside of the Straight Ahead Jazz Genre, to Record Some of the Greatest Music You've Never Heard, Because it Was Never Aired!This is Only Some of the Jazz Artist's that Ventured into this Pop- Rock/Jazz Genre Years Ago. Mostly Because of the Biggest Jazz Song of All Time, Dave Brubeck Quartet's Monster Jazz Hit "Take Five." It Went to #1 in Jazz, and #2 On the Pop Charts at the Same Time, This Never to Happen Again. Recorded In the 60'S and Still Being Aired Today. It is Known that Many of these Jazz Artists Said to Each Other, "We Gotta Do That," and They Did! This is the Music We Now Call Rock/Jazz. Take Five Was Written by Paul Desmond, and there Are Many Variations by Him & Others. Johnny Dankworth's Version Being an Experience by it's Self. Replacing Paul Desmond's Sax with a Guitar Sounding Much Like George Benson. Many of these Artists Are Long Gone Now, But Their Music is Still A Treasure To Find. Their Music Was Lost Due to those Powerful Jazz Station Owners. They Simply Refused to Air These Pop/RockJazz Gems on their Stations, Saying They Wanted to Keep Their Jazz Pure, Didn't Want Their Jazz Watered Down With Pop and Rock Songs. With No Air Play, and No Station That Would Support Them, A Catch 22 Situation. I Know, I was There! All this and Still there is the UnHeard Male and Female Jazz Vocals, that You Just Wouldn't Believe! Explore For Yourself, The Hidden Gems of Pop and Rock/Jazz From these Giant's of Jazz, and When Found,.. Enjoy! Also Listen to Grant Green's Easy, Like Sunday Morning, Betcha By Golly Wow, Love On A Two Way Street and Down Here On The Ground. It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This Folks, and there's a Lot More Where Those Come From. But You Will have to find Them Yourself, as No Jazz Station from Yesterday or Today or On Line Service Will Play Many if Any of Them.Thank You Mr. Grant Green For Allowing Me To Explain On Your Page. Rest in Peace Brother, You Did Well!John V. Always Searching For More of The Best Sounds, You've Never Heard!

Just what you would expect from that period of jazz. Solid stuff.

Very glad to get this one on CD finally. I bought the vinyl LP versionback in the early '70s and listened too it frequently for many years.The tunes are generally shorter than most of his other work but stillhave Grant's cool improvising and unique phrasing of the melody lines.He has some great backing musicians here and great Rudy Van Gelder engineering.Billy Wooten's vibe playing add a nice touch and Chuck Rainey's bass issolid and interesting.I have a lot of Grant Green in my collection but this one is mymain favorite of favorites.

Of all the great Jazz guitarists (i.e. Hall, Raney, Burrell, Montgomery etc.) Grant Green–at his best– has always moved me the most. And that is saying a lot, since listening seriously to Jazz, especially an artist whose recorded output is as uneven as Grant Green one becomes inured and jaded. I had overlooked this CD and was astonished to find perhaps one of Green's finest solos ever on the innocuous song by the Carpenter's "We've Only Just Begun."After toying around with the quite lovely melody Green uncorks an indescribably inventive and moving solo at the very end. It seems to come from out of nowhere so unanticipated as it is. It remains a travesty that the record company faded out this masterpiece as Green continues to play the tune out improvising at an extremely high level. That's what I love about Jazz: One can come across such treasures almost by accident in obscure places. Although familiar with all of Grant Green's recordings I do not issue this praise lightly since this particular solo is that good. I'm just glad I belatedly stumbled across it. Better late than never! Great Jazz is always fragile, like a fleeting divination.

Solid, but non-essential Grant Green from the early 70s period of Blue Note. In the same vein as Wes Montgomery's later work on Verve, Green generally coasts on autopilot over lightly funky arrangements of pop hits from the day, including the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun" and the Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye." The songs are short, pleasant, and not particularly challenging--but Green gets to stretch out at times, most notably on his funky treatment of "Mozart Symphony #40 in G Minor." Visions is still generally enjoyable, but a far cry from his purely jazz albums from a decade or so earlier such as the excellent "Matador" and his work with Sonny Clark. Notable members of the rhythm section are Idris Muhammad (d) and Chuck Rainey (b), so you know that the pocket is being protected. Apparently only available in Japan (and out of print now), this CD is somewhat difficult to obtain in the U.S. but worth owning if you can get your hands on it.

Right from the opening track, the remake of Chicago's "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is" you're in for a treat! If you love to Step as they do in Chicago, this opening track is it!!!! The rest of the tracks are done in typical Grant Green fashion, his phrasing and styling are priceless. This record is a must have! And i will be more than pleased when they put it on CD.

Maybe tomorrow worth the entire CD jp maryland