Grant Green Funk In France – From Paris To Antibes Record Store Day 2018 Vinyl
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Grant Green Funk In France – From Paris To Antibes (1969-1970) 2018 3LP Record Store Day release.
Rare Limited edition 180-gram vinyl first pressing, limited to 3,000 and numbered. Unplayed still in sleeve.
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First official release of previously unissued Grant Green material in over 10 years! for Record Store Day 2018.
Represents the earliest (1969-1970) known live recordings of Grant Green as a leader captured at the ORTF studios in Paris, the Antibes Jazz Festival.
Funk in France is released as a limited-edition, hand-numbered (of 3,000) 180-gram 3LP gatefold set, mastered at the legendary Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios and pressed at 33 1/3 RPM by Record Technology Inc. (RTI). This collection of recordings from the ORTF studios in Paris on October 26, 1969 features the legendary guitarist with bassist Larry Ridley and drummerDon Lamond, with jazz guitar icon Barney Kessel accompanying Green on “I Wish You Love”; plus full concert recordings from the Antibes Jazz Festival on June 18 and 20, 1970 with saxophonist Claude Bartee and organist Clarence Palmer, who both played on Green’s classic 1969 Blue Note album Carryin’ On, and drummer Billy Wilson. The ORTF studio session was taped for a radio broadcast produced by legendary French producer André Francis. The Antibes recording was taped less than a month before Green’s first live release Alive! on Blue Note Records.
The booklet for Funk in France includes essays by the renowned Blue Note Records discographer, writer and executive producer of this album Michael Cuscuna, along with Zev Feldman of Resonance and Pascal Rozat of Ina; interviews with Soulive guitarist and producer Eric Krasno, the legendary organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, Grant Green’s eldest son Greg Green (aka Grant Green Jr.) and the organist from the Antibes concerts, Clarence Palmer; plus memorabilia and previously unpublished photos by French photographers Christian Rose and Jean-Pierre Leloir taken at the ORTF studio 104 and Antibes Jazz Festival, as well as jazz photography icon Chuck Stewart.
Funk in France: From Paris to Antibes (1969-1970)
DISC ONE: 1. I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I’ll Get It Myself) (4:34) 2. Oleo (4:24) 3. How Insensitive (Insensatez) (7:18) 4. Untitled Blues (8:09) 5. Sonnymoon for Two (7:00) 6. I Wish You Love* (7:06) 7. Upshot (18:02) – Live at the Antibes Jazz Festival on July 18, 1970 DISC TWO: 1. Hurt So Bad (14:38) – Live at the Antibes Jazz Festival on July 18, 1970 2. Upshot (19:46) – Live at the Antibes Jazz Festival on July 20, 1970 3. Hi-Heel Sneakers (27:13) – Live at the Antibes Jazz Festival on July 20, 1970 DISC THREE: 1. Upshot (19.46) Live A The Antibes Jazz Festival on July 20, 1970 2. Hi-Heel Sneakers (27.13) Live At The Antibes Jazz Festival on July 20, 1970price rating