Product Description

It was always a part of Blue Note's development and marketing to introduce new artists as sidemen on more well-known leaders' projects before giving them dates of their own. The system worked pretty well, and the irony is that a release like 1963's IDLE MOMENTS looks likes more of an all-star session in retrospect. Sure, we get to hear Grant Green stretching out. But we also get Bobby Hutcherson and Joe Henderson, who were just winning their first Downbeat polls at the time.
Green himself had come through this system, appearing with organ combos and on other hard bop sessions, before graduating to his own Blue Note dates. IDLE MOMENTS may be one ofhis finest dates in the studio, simply on the strength of the elegant melancholy of the title cut and the deep groove the band settles into on "Django". Green's playing has much in common with that of such labelmates as saxophonist StanleyTurrentine and pianist Gene Harris. He manages to bring solid bebop sensibilities to a spare, down-home approach and delivers it all with an oaken tone at once dry, dark, and fullof character.

Track Listing

1. Idle Moments
2. Jean De Fleur
3. Django
4. Nomad
5. Jean De Fleur (2)
6. Django (2)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11350 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

well worth the money
Im amazed at how cheap these albums are as the musicianship and technical skill are so impressive. Grant Green's guitar with the vibraphone works beautifully tonally and melodically. An album for a jazz fan.

The epitome of cool
Grant Green and Bobby Hutcherson were always going to be a formidable combination and so it proves on this date for Blue Note. This is probably the best guitar date Blue Note ever recorded. Relaxing? Yes. Challenging? Absolutely. But dont be fooled this is not comatose. This swings like nobodys business, and is thoroughly modern. I love this record. If any guitar lead ensemble ventured near Kind of Blue territory its this one. Its beautful and deep. If you love music that is contemplative and beguiling you want this record. its a simple choice. Buy it.

Most relaxing album ever?
It doesn't matter how stressed I have been during the day this album sorts it all out! The title track is magnificant with each of the artists taking you along a smooth and mellow path and when that sax comes in.....no need for anything else...except maybe a small single malt whisky!

Buy it and enjoy it. Over and over and over again.