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Odd Pianoless Pairing, 25 May 2011
By Charles O "chuck" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Grass Roots/The Grass Is Greener (Audio CD)
A two-fer compact disc with as you would expect, two different lineups. Both are fronted by Grassella Oliphant, whose drumming doesn't intrude at all, and include saxophonist Harold Ousley, who contributes six songs across both sets and navigates the two different styles with ease. The first, the Grass Roots, features Bobby Hutcherson on vibes without piano accompaniment, for a sparer overall sound which is like nectar for mallet fans. The sound of his bars has a different tambour than I'm used to, as if it was miked very close, as you would expect with no other harmony instrument. The standards include a fast Mood Indigo and Joe Henderson's Step Lightly, played for a lush effect. The album is straight-ahead hard-bop.
The second album, The Grass is Greener, includes Grant Green on guitar, John Patton, organ, and Clark Terry, brass. It's a soul jazz outing, with Get Out of My Life Woman, Ain't That Peculiar, and Cantaloupe Woman along with other tasty items like Peaches Are Better Down the Road, by Clark Terry (which is mistakenly swapped with Soul Woman in the liner notes). Joe Patton is wonderfully soulful and Grant Green's solos are great, though his comping is repetitive when Patton is soloing, something I hadn't noticed as he usually doesn't have to.
Overall, the first album is not a must-have unless you're a Hutcherson fan, but the second is extremely tasty for toe-tapping fans of soul-jazz.
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