Grant Green

3 COMPLETE LPs on a 2-CD SET! + 1 BONUS TRACK

This release presnts all of Grant Green and Baby Face Willette’s collaborative albums as leaders. Recorded in 1961-62, they consist of the LP "Grant’s First Stand" (Blue Note BST-84064), issued under the guitarist’s name, and “Baby Face” Willette’s albums "Face to Face" (Blue Note BST-84068) and "Stop and Listen" (Blue Note BST-84084). Other than their three LPs as leaders, Green and Willette only recorded together on Lou Donaldson’s album Here ‘Tis, from which it has been added the title song, a long blues, as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

GRANT GREEN, guitar
“BABY FACE” WILLETTE, organ
BEN DIXON, drums

CD1, 1-6: Grant’s First Stand (4 1/2 Stars All Music Guide)
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, January 28, 1961.

CD1, 7-12 & CD2, 1-2: Stop and Listen (4 1/2 Stars All Music Guide)
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, May 22, 1961.

CD2, 3-10: Face to Face (4 Stars All Music Guide) Add FRED JACKSON, tenor sax.
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, January 30, 1961.

CD [11] bonus track: Lou Donaldson (as),
Grant Green (g), “Baby Face” Willette (org), Dave Bailey (d).
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, January 23, 1961.

INCLUDES 24-PAGE BOOKLET

CD1: Total Time: 78:56

01 Miss Ann’s Tempo
02 Lullaby Of The Leaves
03 Blues For Willarene
04 Baby’s Minor Lope
05 ‘Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
06 A Wee Bit O’green
07 Willow Weep For Me
08 Chances Are Few
09 Jumpin’ Jupiter
10 Stop And Listen
11 At Last
12 Soul Walk

CD 2: Total Time: 76:07

01 Work Song
02 They Can’t Take That Away From Me
03 Swingin’ At Sugar Ray’s
04 Goin’ Down
05 Whatever Lola Wants
06 Face To Face
07 Something Strange
08 High ‘N Low
09 Face To Face [Alternative Take]
10 Something Strange [A.Take]
11 Here ‘Tis