Feelin' the Spirit
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Feelin' the Spirit is an album by jazz guitarist Grant Green
originally issued on Blue Note Records
as BLP 4132 and BST 84132. Consisting purely of jazz versions of African American
spirituals, it is one of a series of theme records recorded by the guitarist in 1962.
From the original liner notes: "Green has made no attempt here to recreate the five spirituals he plays in anything resembling their original context, nor has he tried to duplicate their often pallid manifestation on the concert stage. He has approached them with affection, but as music to be played in his style. The result is a fascinating combination: the techniques of modern jazz, blues, and gospel, all applied to the spiritual." - Joe Goldberg
This album was remastered and reissued in Blue Note's Rudy Van Gelder
Edition series on March 1, 2005.
Grant Green
Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....
originally issued on Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
as BLP 4132 and BST 84132. Consisting purely of jazz versions of African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
spirituals, it is one of a series of theme records recorded by the guitarist in 1962.
From the original liner notes: "Green has made no attempt here to recreate the five spirituals he plays in anything resembling their original context, nor has he tried to duplicate their often pallid manifestation on the concert stage. He has approached them with affection, but as music to be played in his style. The result is a fascinating combination: the techniques of modern jazz, blues, and gospel, all applied to the spiritual." - Joe Goldberg
This album was remastered and reissued in Blue Note's Rudy Van Gelder
Rudy Van Gelder
Rudy Van Gelder is an American recording engineer specializing in jazz.Often regarded as one of the most important recording engineers in music history, Van Gelder has recorded several thousand jazz sessions, including many widely recognized as classics, in a career spanning more than half a century...
Edition series on March 1, 2005.
Track listing
- "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" - 7:25
- "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" - 8:00
- "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" - 6:05
- "Go Down Moses" - 7:25
- "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" - 9:00
- "Deep River" (Harry BurleighHarry BurleighHenry "Harry" Thacker Burleigh , a baritone, was an African American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer...
) - 8:53
- Track 6 only available on CD.
Personnel
- Grant GreenGrant GreenGrant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....
- electric guitar - Herbie HancockHerbie HancockHerbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
- piano - Butch WarrenButch WarrenEdward "Butch" Warren is an American jazz double bassist who plays in the hard bop genre. He was especially active in the late-50s and the 1960s.-Biography:...
- bass - Billy HigginsBilly HigginsBilly Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, beginning in 1958...
- drums - Garvin Masseaux - tambourine