Talkin' About! is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green

Grant Green

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

 featuring performances recorded in 1964 and 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.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "With just a basic organ trio lineup, the album works a fascinating middle ground between the soul-jazz of Green's early days and the modal flavor of his most recent work... It all makes for a terrific album that ranks in Green's uppermost echelon".

Track listing

1. "Talkin' About J.C." (Larry Young) – 11:41
2. "People" (Bob Merrill
   Bob Merrill
   Bob Merrill was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Merrill Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a stint with the Army during World War II, he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a...
   
   , Jule Styne
   Jule Styne
   Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
   
   ) – 7:25
3. "Luny Tune" (Young) – 7:41
4. "You Don't Know What Love Is
   You Don't Know What Love Is
   "You Don't Know What Love Is," a popular song of the Great American Songbook, has one the craziest histories of any song. It was written by Don Raye and Gene de Paul for the Abbott and Costello 1941 Universal picture Keep 'Em Flying, in which it was sung by Carol Bruce...
   
   " (Gene de Paul
   Gene de Paul
   Gene de Paul was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in New York City, he served in the United States Army during World War II....
   
   , Don Raye
   Don Raye
   Don Raye , born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."While known for...
   
   ) – 7:36
5. "I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)
   I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande
   "I'm an Old Cow Hand " is a comic song written by Johnny Mercer for the film Rhythm on the Range and sung by its star, Bing Crosby...
   
   " (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...
   
   ) – 6:29
   • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 11, 1964

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...
  
  
• Larry Young - organ
• Elvin Jones
  Elvin Jones
  Elvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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