{"product_id":"green-grant-alive","title":"Green, Grant - Alive","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW VINYL LP ON BLUE NOTE 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e180 GRAM VINYL.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlive! is the hardest funk LP Grant Green recorded during the later phase of his career, capturing a storming gig at Newark's Cliché Lounge. The sweaty club atmosphere adds something to the music that's difficult to pin down, yet unmistakably present -- a certain organic quality that isn't as noticeable on Green's studio albums of the time. Moreover, Green sounds more like the captain of his ship, with greater assurance in his musical direction and more strut on the R\u0026amp;B material. Drummer Idris Muhammad is a monster in this live setting, and he helps push Green (plus the rest of the band, which includes organist Ronnie Foster) even farther with his kinetic, continually evolving funk rhythms. That's especially true on the swaggering Kool \u0026amp; the Gang cover \"Let the Music Take Your Mind,\" but Don Covay's \"Sookie, Sookie\" grooves almost as powerfully. What's most surprising about the set, though, is that Green finds ways to work in bits of the modal style he had been pursuing in the mid-'60s on slower pieces like the Earl Neal Creque ballad \"Time to Remember\" and \"Down Here on the Ground,\" which was later sampled by jazz-rap pioneers A Tribe Called Quest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alive!_(Grant_Green_album)\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alive!_(Grant_Green_album)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA1 Let The Music Take Your Mind 8:30\u003cbr\u003eA2 Time To Remember 10:30\u003cbr\u003eB1 Sookie, Sookie 11:00\u003cbr\u003eB2 Down Here On The Ground\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HsKZLOWrEkY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Universal","offers":[{"title":"1970","offer_id":1028094925,"sku":"","price":219.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/2072\/products\/Skaermbillede_2019-11-12_kl._06.48.30.png?v=1573537732","url":"https:\/\/recordpusher.live\/products\/green-grant-alive","provider":"RecordPusher - International Vinyl Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}