Blues for Lou is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green

Grant Green

Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....

 featuring performances recorded in 1963, but not released on the Blue Note

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 label until 1999.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3 stars and stated "While this session may not have met producer Alfred Lion

Alfred Lion

Alfred Lion was a Jewish German-born American record executive who co-founded Blue Note Records in 1939 Blue Note recorded many of the biggest names in jazz throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.-Biography:...

's very high standards, it was worthy of release and definitely a worthwhile investment for fans of Grant Green".

Track listing

Recorded on February 20 (tracks 1 & 3-8) & June 7 (track 2), 1963

Personnel

• Grant Green
  Grant Green
  Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• John Patton
  John Patton (musician)
  John Patton , sometimes nicknamed Big John Patton, was a hard bop and soul jazz organist....
  
   - organ
• Ben Dixon - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....