I Want to Hold Your Hand (album)

I Want to Hold Your Hand is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.[2]

I Want to Hold Your Hand
Studio album by
ReleasedLate May 1966[1]
RecordedMarch 31, 1965
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length41:30
LabelBlue Note
ProducerAlfred Lion
Grant Green chronology
Street of Dreams
(1964)
I Want to Hold Your Hand
(1966)
His Majesty King Funk
(1965)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]

The AllMusic review by Steve Huey states, "Even with all the straightforward pop overtones of much of the material, the quartet's playing is still very subtly advanced, both in its rhythmic interaction and the soloists' harmonic choices. Whether augmented by an extra voice or sticking to the basic trio format, the Green/Young/Jones team produced some of the most sophisticated organ/guitar combo music ever waxed, and I Want to Hold Your Hand is the loveliest of the bunch".[3]

Track listing

  1. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 7:23
  2. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 7:14
  3. "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 6:29
  4. "Corcovado (Quiet Nights)" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 5:59
  5. "This Could Be the Start of Something" (Steve Allen) – 7:08
  6. "At Long Last Love" (Cole Porter) – 7:17

Personnel

References

  1. Billboard May 21, 1966
  2. Grant Green discography accessed September 17, 2010
  3. Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 17, 2010
  4. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
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