Grant Green
Idle Moments
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
- Label
- Blue Note · ST-84154
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Jazz BopHard Bop
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Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch! Bobby Hutcherson plays vibes on both Idle Moments and Out to Lunch! — the same Blue Note moment from two different sessions, connected by the same personnel. -
Charles Mingus Mingus At Antibes Both records are from the Blue Note hard-bop canon that hip-hop producers were digging through systematically in the early '90s — Mingus and Grant Green are in the same crate. -
Guru Jazzmatazz (Volume 1) Jazzmatazz is the explicit acknowledgment — Guru recruiting Donald Byrd (Blue Note) and Roy Ayers for the same record is the statement that these jazz records and hip-hop production share a lineage.
Blue Note, 1963. Joe Henderson on tenor, Bobby Hutcherson on vibes, Duke Pearson on piano — Hutcherson is the throughline between this record and Out to Lunch!, which he recorded for the same label a year later. Grant Green’s guitar is the most distinctive element: modal, blues-inflected, unhurried in a way that sounds lazy until you realise how precisely each note is placed.
Idle Moments is part of what the Native Tongues producers were systematically working through — the sample bin made visible. Blue Note hard bop, CTI fusion, Impulse Coltrane were the canonical crate-digger labels, and this is one of the canonical records within them: the original source rather than only the music that was built from it.