Grant Green – Green Street (M/VG+) – LP, Worldwide 2023

Green Street is an LP by Grant Green from 2023 released on the Blue Note, UMe label.

About this album

Green Street is one of Grant Green’s most elegant early statements, a stripped-back hard bop session that lets his guitar speak with unusual clarity. Recorded for Blue Note in 1961, the album pares the sound to guitar, tenor saxophone and drums, giving Green room to shape every phrase with cool logic and relaxed swing. The set mixes fresh originals with standards such as “’Round About Midnight” and “Alone Together”, showing how fluently he could move between bluesy invention and refined ballad playing. As a concise Blue Note date, it became a key example of Green’s lyricism and economy.