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    Grant Green Green is Beautiful (Classic Vinyl Series)

    Blue Note
    • Grant Green – Ain't It Funky Now
    • Grant Green – The Windjammer
    • Grant Green – Dracula
    • 1. Ain't It Funky Now
    • 2. A Day In The Life
    • 3. The Windjammer
    • 4. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
    • 5. Dracula

    Another Blue Note killer coming!

    Grant Green killer 1970 super funky soul jazz LP from Liberty-era Blue Note Records. This is one of the best Blue Note albums of the 1970s!

    Super-rare and out of print on vinyl for over 25 years. Featuring a killer line-up and some seriously funky and deep tunes.

    Line-up includes Grant Green (guitar), Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Idris Muhammad (drums), Candido (Congas), Neal Creque (organ).

    Produced by Blue Note founder Francis Wolf, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gelder Studios.

    A Classic!

    This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

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