''Alive!'' is an album by American jazz guitarist

Grant Green Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer. Green has been called one of the "most sampled guitarists." Biography Grant Green was born on June 6, 1935, in St. Louis, Missouri, to John and ...

featuring a performance recorded at the Cliche Lounge in

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in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label.Grant Green discography
accessed September 17, 2010 The album was Green's first official live recording. The CD reissue in 1993 added three bonus tracks.

Reception

The

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review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4 stars and stated "''Alive!'' is the hardest funk LP Grant Green recorded during the later phase of his career... this is the most convincing and consistent Green had been as a funkster and, while nearly all of his albums from the early '70s feature at least some worthwhile material for acid jazz and beat-sampling junkies, ''Alive!'' is probably the best place to start".Huey, S. Allmusic Reviewaccessed September 17, 2010 " The Penguin Guide to Jazz" review by Richard Cook and Brian Morton stated: "It seems remarkable that Blue Note weren't more enthusiastic sooner about recording Green in his natural setting. This, from the Cliché Lounge in Newark, is almost his best recording for the label, a burning, sweaty club that might rely a bit on the very commodity it was named for, but none the worse of that."

Track listing

# "Let the Music Take Your Mind" ( Kool & the Gang, Gene Redd) - 8:42 # "Time To Remember" ( Neal Creque) - 11:19 # ''Band introduction by Buddy Green'' - 0:32 # "Sookie, Sookie" ( Don Covay, Steve Cropper) - 11:10 # "Down Here on the Ground" ( Gale Garnett,

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) - 6:45 Bonus tracks on CD reissue: #

" Hey, Western Union Man" ( Jerry Butler, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff) - 7:46 # " It's Your Thing" ( Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley) - 9:17 # " Maiden Voyage" (

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) - 10:58

Personnel

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*Claude Bartee -

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*Willie Bivens - vibes * Neal Creque (tracks 2 & 5),

Ronnie Foster Ronnie Foster (born May 12, 1950) is an American funk and soul jazz organist, and record producer. His albums recorded for Blue Note Records in the 1970s have gained a cult following after the emergence of acid jazz. Early life Foster was born ...

(tracks 1, 4 & 6–8) - organ *

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*Joseph Armstrong -

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*Buddy Green -

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References

{{Grant Green Blue Note Records live albums Grant Green albums 1970 live albums Albums produced by Francis Wolff