Grant Green

• 180 Gram VINYL

• BLUE NOTE 80 VINYL REISSUE SERIES

• THEME: BLUE NOTE LIVE SERIES

After a prolific 5-year run from 1961-1965 when he made more than 20 great hard bop & soul jazz albums for Blue Note, guitarist Grant Green took a 4-year hiatus from recording. When he returned to Blue Note in 1969, Green’s style had moved into funkier territory as was perfectly captured on his first-ever live album “Alive!” which captured a hard-driving set of jazz-funk at the Cliché Lounge in Newark, New Jersey in 1970. The closing track “Down Here On The Ground” was famously sampled by A Tribe Called Quest for the track “Vibes and Stuff” on their hip-hop classic Low End Theory.

PERSONNEL:

• CLAUDE BARTEE, tenor sax
• EARL NEAL CREQUE, RONNIE FOSTER, organ
• WILLIAM BIVENS, vibes
• JOSEPH ARMSTRONG. congas
• IDRIS MUHAMMAD, drums
• BOBBY GREEN, vocal

Recorded on August 15, 1970 at the Cliche Lounge, Newark, N.J.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A:
• A1: Let The Music Take Your Mind
• A2: Time To Remember

• SIDE A:
• B1: Sookie, Sookie
• B2: Down Here On The Ground