Goin' West [Remaster]

Performer: Grant Green
Artist: Herbie Hancock; Reggie Workman; Billy Higgins
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
Producer: Alfred Lion; Michael Cuscuna (Reissue)
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Grant Green (guitar); Herbie Hancock (piano); Reggie Workman (bass); Billy Higgins (drums). Recorded at Van Gelder studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on November 30, 1962. Includes liner notes Bob Blumenthal. This is part of Blue Note's RVG series. Personnel: Grant Green (guitar); Herbie Hancock (piano); Billy Higgins (drums). Audio Remasterer: Rudy Van Gelder. Liner Note Authors: Nat Hentoff; Bob Blumenthal. Recording information: New York, NY (11/30/1962); Van Gelder Studio, Eglewood Cliffs, NJ (11/30/1962). Photographer: Francis Wolff. A Blue Note album finally reissued on CD in early 2004, Grant Green's Goin' West -- like Feelin' the Spirit -- includes Herbie Hancock on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums. Includes tunes like (can you believe?) "On Top of Old Smokey" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." Only Green could carry this off, but he is the man when it comes to standards. ~ Michael Erlewine

St. Louis-born guitarist Grant Green was a giant of what came to be known as soul-jazz. His singular style incorporated the influences of Gospel, blues, and R&B, and defined a unique post-bop language for electric guitar. His classic early-1960s Blue Note recordings are high-water marks of both the soul-jazz sound and of jazz guitar in general. Drug abuse sadly hampered his later career; he died in 1979, but his son, the jazz guitarist Grant Green, Jr., continues his legacy.

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