If that post was supposed to be a response to my post, it's the silliest you ever made.
Enjoy the music.
Jazz for aficionados
Today's Listen: Dick Hyman -- MUSIC OF 1937 (maybeck recital vol three) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgJaGssX1Ec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aXCy7yu0Rw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyJm7pEPDqw Isn't it amazing how the good stuff never ages or sounds dated. Not too familiar with Hyman, or why I came to buy this disc. He can play. Although he is banned in Japan, a few LPs managed to swim the Pacific and get there. One of the greatest outrages in the history of Jazz. Cheers |
Rok, I don't think it was as much an outrage as the Grant Green outrage; not only was he denied what was due him for producing the music, I was denied the pleasure of having those records in my collection, I was denied the pleasure of listening to some of his best music. He was one of the very few artists that I had met and talked to, he was one of the very few artists that I had seen live many times; to be denied the pleasure of listening to his records was an injustice to me personally. Enjoy the music. |
O-10, IMHO,The reason Mr. Green's material was only released in Japan was that was the only place where the material would sell big. The market in the U.S. was changing, and not in the direction of Grant Green. Sad but true. No matter how good or bad, it was deemed not marketable by Blue Note. The masses speak volumes with their wallets. The bigger question was, Why then did they record Grant Green? To keep them at Blue Note? To give them a payday? I don't know. I am just glad the guy's at Mosaic found them and released them, so people who wanted more Grant Green would be able to hear him. |