The resulting album has a much looser feel than most of his previous Blue Note albums, it's more of a jam session with the trio riffing on a mix of originals and standards. While in Pittsburgh playing a gig with Big John Patton and Ben Dixon, the trio hit the studio for a quick one-off soul jazz session. ![]() Iron City was recorded in 1967 during a down period for Green, when he was dealing with a drug addiction and had temporarily left Blue Note (he recorded two albums for Verve during this time, one of which remains unreleased). Eventually I would discover Solid and The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark, two sets of music that unforgivably didn't see the light of day until the late-1970s, and in my opinion contain some of the best music laid down for Blue Note in the 1960s. After Workout I made my way to Green's undisputed classic Idle Moments, an album that should be a part of any self-respecting jazz collection. ![]() That LP shows off everything that is great about Green, the effectiveness of his soulful bluesy single-note jazz licks, the very style that made him a master of the hard bop, soul jazz and jazz funk styles. I've been a huge fan of Grant Green ever since a buddy turned me on to Hank Mobley's Workout album nearly twenty years ago (it is still one of my favorite jazz records to this day).
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