O-10, I realize that I haven't earned the classification of "aficionado" (although I seem to have graduated to "connoisseur"), but since this is an open forum I will give this a stab eventhough you ask the question of your fellow "aficionados". Moreover, so far as I can tell, only one poster has expressed an opinion on the matter that you have not dismissed completely. So, your use of the plural with "aficionados" must mean that you are being inclusive. You obviously don't care about the calls from other participants here to drop this Grant Green business and at some point you are going to have to understand that you set yourself up for disagreement and worse.
Several possible reasons have been given for why those recordings were not released. You have dismissed every single reason given as 100%, even 200%, wrong. Not only does claiming someone is wrong suggest that you know what the correct answer is, but you have failed to give your own (presumably correct) answer. So, what is it? Why don't we start there. My contention is simple, the records were released as dictated by Grant's contract. So, anything else, right or wrong, humane or not, is moot. You admit a bias (good!); so, it seems to me that rather than cherry picking the recordings that YOU feel "set the mood" for the time, shouldn't those recordings be picked by others?
"Sketches Of Spain": with everything that was going on in jazz in 1961, "setting the mood"? Seriously?
Several possible reasons have been given for why those recordings were not released. You have dismissed every single reason given as 100%, even 200%, wrong. Not only does claiming someone is wrong suggest that you know what the correct answer is, but you have failed to give your own (presumably correct) answer. So, what is it? Why don't we start there. My contention is simple, the records were released as dictated by Grant's contract. So, anything else, right or wrong, humane or not, is moot. You admit a bias (good!); so, it seems to me that rather than cherry picking the recordings that YOU feel "set the mood" for the time, shouldn't those recordings be picked by others?
"Sketches Of Spain": with everything that was going on in jazz in 1961, "setting the mood"? Seriously?