Grant Green - Green Is Beautiful
Жанр: Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Funk
Носитель: LP
Год выпуска: 1970/1993
Лейбл: Blue Note (BST 84342 / BN 4342)
Страна-производитель: Япония
Аудио кодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: tracks
Формат записи: 24/192
Формат раздачи: 24/192
Продолжительность: 00:37:31
Треклист:
01. Ain't It Funky Now (Brown) - 9:58
02. A Day in the Life (Lennon-McCartney) - 9:00
03. The Windjammer (Creque) - 5:42
04. I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Bacharach-David) - 6:47
05. Dracula (Creque) - 6:04
Источник оцифровки: thezabs
Устройство воспроизведения: Rega P10 Turntable with Rega P10 PSU
Головка звукоснимателя: Rega Apheta 3 Cartridge
Предварительный усилитель: PS Audio NuWave Phono Converter ADC
Программа-оцифровщик: Audition CC 2019
Обработка: Click Repair 3.9.9 at 10/0 on DeClick > Volume Boost +5 DB > Remove DC Bias
Условия оцифровки
Lineage:
KLAudio KL-LP-200 RCM > Rega P10 Turntable with Rega P10 PSU > Rega Apheta 3 Cartridge > PS Audio NuWave Phono Converter ADC > AudioQuest Carbon USB Cable > USB-IN > Audition CC 2019 @ 24bit float, 192kHz capture.
Processing:
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Scans:
Epson Expression 11000XL -> 16bit 600 DPI with Unsharp Mask -> Color Correction in Photoshop CC 2019 x64 -> 8bit 600DPI PNG.
Спектры
Замер динамического диапазона
foobar2000 1.6.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2022-01-20 16:03:13
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Analyzed: Grant Green / Green Is Beautiful
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -0.98 dB -16.26 dB 9:58 01-Ain't It Funky Now
DR12 -1.82 dB -16.23 dB 9:00 02-A Day in the Life
DR12 -1.45 dB -17.13 dB 5:42 03-The Windjammer
DR14 -1.81 dB -18.91 dB 6:47 04-I'll Never Fall in Love Again
DR13 -2.07 dB -17.43 dB 6:04 05-Dracula
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Number of tracks: 5
Official DR value: DR13
Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 4962 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Review by Steve Huey
The second album of Grant Green's thorough jazz-funk makeover, Green Is Beautiful finds the guitarist growing more comfortable with harder, funkier R&B than he seemed on the softer-hued Carryin' On. The switch from Fender Rhodes electric piano back to the more traditional Hammond organ certainly helps give the session a little extra grit, but it doesn't return Green to the land of soul-jazz by any means. Green Is Beautiful is still explicitly commercial and accessible to non-jazz audiences, and (purist objections notwithstanding) that's not necessarily a bad thing. Green's take on James Brown's "Ain't It Funky Now" is one of the funkiest items in his rare-groove period; it may be chordally very simple, but the groove is tight and percolating, and Green, tenor saxophonist Claude Bartee, and trumpeter Blue Mitchell all come up with hot, exciting solos. The album also benefits from Green's discovery of composer and occasional organist Earl Neal Creque, who contributes two bright, slinky, horn-driven originals: "The Windjammer," which became one of the signature tunes of Green's late period, and "Dracula." They help give the album a more original voice, and indicate that Green was actively making himself at home in his new musical environment, not just mixing dull originals with phoned-in covers of pop and R&B hits (as he and many other '70s Blue Note artists were accused of doing). Of course, there are still pop covers present -- the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" is a mellow, mid-tempo groove, and Bacharach's "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" doesn't stray far from the melody. Even if those aren't particularly distinctive, the remainder of Green Is Beautiful proves that Green's reinvention as a jazz-funk artist wasn't the misguided disaster it was initially made out to be.
Состав
Grant Green - guitar
Blue Mitchell - trumpet
Claude Bartee - tenor saxophone
Emanuel Riggins, Earl Neal Creque (#3) - organ
Jimmy Lewis - Fender bass
Idris Muhammad - drums
Candido Camero - congas
Richard Lendrum - bongos
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on January 30, 1970.