Gooden's Corner is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green

Grant Green

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

 featuring performances recorded in 1961 and released on the Japanese 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. The tracks were also released in 1997 as part of The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark

The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark

The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark is a 1997 compilation album by jazz guitarist Grant Green, collecting together all the tracks from the albums Nigeria, Oleo, and Gooden's Corner, together with one additional tune and two alternate takes from the same recording sessions...

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael Erlewine awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "This is an album of real beauty and synergy between Green and pianist Sonny Clark

Sonny Clark

Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.-Biography:...

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Track listing

All compositions by Grant Green except as indicated

1. "On Green Dolphin Street
   On Green Dolphin Street (song)
   "On Green Dolphin Street" is a 1947 popular song composed by Bronislau Kaper with lyrics by Ned Washington. The song, composed for the film Green Dolphin Street, went on to become a jazz standard after being recorded by Miles Davis...
   
   " (Bronislau Kaper, Ned Washington
   Ned Washington
   Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...
   
   ) - 6:25
2. "Shadrack
   Shadrack (Robert MacGimsey song)
   "Shadrack" is a popular song written by Robert MacGimsey in the 1930s and performed by Louis Armstrong and others...
   
   " (Robert MacGimsey
   Robert MacGimsey
   Robert MacGimsey was an American composer. His most famous song was "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" , a well-known Christmas carol written in the style of an African-American spiritual...
   
   ) - 6:20
3. "What Is This Thing Called Love?
   What Is This Thing Called Love?
   "What Is This Thing Called Love?"is a 1929 popular song written by Cole Porter, for the musical Wake Up and Dream. It was first performed by Elsie Carlisle in March 1929. The song has become a popular jazz standard and one of Porter's most often played compositions.Wake Up and Dream ran for 263...
   
   " (Cole Porter
   Cole Porter
   Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
   
   ) - 5:40
4. "Moon River" (Henry Mancini
   Henry Mancini
   Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...
   
   , Johnny Mercer
   Johnny Mercer
   John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
   
   ) - 5:34
5. "Gooden's Corner" - 8:11
6. "Two for One" - 7:38
   • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on December 23, 1961

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...
  
  
• Sonny Clark
  Sonny Clark
  Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.-Biography:...
  
   - piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Sam Jones - bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Louis Hayes
  Louis Hayes
  Louis Hayes is an American jazz drummer.-Biography:His father played drums and piano and his mother the piano and he refers to the early influence of hearing jazz, especially that of big bands, on the radio...
  
   - 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 ....