Idle moments
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| Label (s) | Blue note | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
4 (LP) / 6 (CD) |
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running time |
42:47 (CD) |
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Studio (s) |
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey |
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Idle Moments (German: moments of idleness ) is a jazz album by Grant Green , taken by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey on 4 and 15 November 1963, published in 1964 on Blue Note Records .
The album
Grant Green was heard in the 1960s with his broad, bluesy sound and infectious swing on numerous soul jazz sessions of the Blue Note label. Idle Moments - together with Born to Be Blue (1962) and Street of Dreams (1964) - is one of the guitarist's most important albums. The album was in the form of a single LP; It was therefore planned to record four tracks with the tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson , the vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson , the pianist and then Blue Note house producer Duke Pearson , as well as Bob Cranshaw on bass and Al Harewood on drums.
The album was best known for its title track, a slow blues composition that lasts almost 15 minutes. Pearson, who wrote the piece, wrote in the liner notes for the album that (for reasons of space) the piece should actually have been much shorter. Although the musicians repeated the piece two more times, the results of the first recording session were not sufficient. The producer Alfred Lion decided to take the first long take for the album, which created the problem that the already recorded takes by Django and Jean De Fleur exceeded the limit set by the LP format. Therefore, shorter versions of the two titles were recorded in a second session, which then appeared on the original album. The extended variants of the two titles then appeared on the 1998 RVG edition of the album.
rating
The All Music Guide rated Idle Moments with the highest grade; also Richard Cook and Brian Morton in their Penguin Guide to Jazz ; they mention the strange coincidence of events in the United States in November 1963, the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy , in which Green's great session took place.
title
Original LP
- page A
- Idle Moments (Pearson) - 14:56
- Jean De Fleur (Green) - 6:49
- Side B
- Django ( Lewis ) - 8:44
- Nomad (Pearson) - 12:16
Rudy Van Gelder remaster series CD re-release
- Idle Moments - 14:56
- Jean De Fleur - 6:49
- Django - 8:44
- Nomad - 12:16
- Jean De Fleur - 8:08 (alternate take)
- Django - 13:13 (alternate take)
The cover design and the cover photo was done by Reid Miles .
literature
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz. 1800 bands and artists from the beginning until today. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-476-01892-X .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Created in 1961/62 with Ike Quebec , Sonny Clark , Sam Jones and Louis Hayes .
- ↑ Recorded in November 1964 with Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Young and Elvin Jones .
- ↑ cf. Cook / Morton 2001, p. 612 f.
- ↑ in successor to Ike Quebec, who died in 1963.