Idle Moments

Grant Green · 1963 · Title track, 14 min 56 s (recorded November 4 and 15, 1963, Blue Note) with Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson and Duke Pearson.

Context

Composition by Duke Pearson, title track of the Grant Green album recorded on November 4 and 15, 1963, at Rudy Van Gelder's in Englewood Cliffs and released by Blue Note in 1965. A slow ballad in C minor lasting nearly fifteen minutes: a confusion over the length of the chorus doubled the planned duration, and Alfred Lion kept the first take because he could not recapture its mood. The album is often cited as the best entry point into Green's work.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Hard bop, Soul jazz, boogaloo. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

Sources

• EN: Idle Moments

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