Grant Green: Feelin’ The Spirit (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) LP ETJS-7 For more than 6 decades

For more than 6 decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world

featuring the wonderful Samara Joy

The Real McCoy

and she went on to record a number of classy 45s alongside her major album projects for the next ten years

but after a decade in which personal troubles limited his output

Grant Green: Feelin’ The Spirit (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) LP ETJS-7 For more than 6 decadesBlue Note, 1963 Grant Green was Feelin The Spirit on this deeply soulful 1962 date that is a sibling of sorts to the great guitarists sanctified 1961 album Sunday Mornin. Feelin The Spirit, which was the 13th album the remarkably prolific artist recorded during his first two years on the label, found Green interpreting a set of five African American spirituals Just A Closer Walk With Thee, Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho, Nobody Knows The Trouble Ive