Am I Blue

by Grant Green

Am I Blue cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: June 1964
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:03
  • Community rating: 3.23/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Grant Green leads a relaxed, blues-oriented soul jazz session featuring John Patton on Hammond organ. The instrumental interpretations focus heavily on Green's clean, single-note picking style, prioritizing melodic development and slow-burning grooves over rapid hard bop chord changes.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Am I Blue? (6:56)
  2. Take These Chains From My Heart (6:11)
  3. I Wanna Be Loved (7:38)
  4. Sweet Slumber (7:17)
  5. For All We Know (13:59)

Credits

  • Grant Green - primary artist, guitar
  • Reid Miles - design [cover]
  • Ben Dixon - drums
  • Joe Goldberg - liner notes
  • John Patton - organ
  • Francis Wolff - photography by [cover photo], photography
  • Alfred Lion - producer
  • Rudy Van Gelder - recorded by [recording by]
  • Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone
  • Johnny Coles - trumpet
  • Grant Clarke - written-by
  • Harry Akst - written-by
  • Fred Rose - written-by
  • Hy Heath - written-by
  • Billy Rose - written-by
  • Edward Heyman - written-by
  • Al Neiburg - written-by
  • Henri Woode - written-by
  • Lucky Millinder - written-by
  • J. Fred Coots - written-by
  • Sam Lewis - written-by

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