Idle Moments

Infobox Album |
Name = Idle Moments
Type = Album
Artist = Grant Green


Released = November 1963
Recorded = 1963
Genre = Jazz
Length = 42:47
Label = Blue Note
Producer = Alfred Lion
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ybb1z8ha8yvj link] |
Last album = "Am I Blue?" (1963)
This album = "Idle Moments" (1963)
Next album = "Matador"
(1964)

"Idle Moments" is a 1963 jazz album by Grant Green. The album, released on Blue Note, features performances by Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Bobby Hutcherson on vibes, Blue Note in-house producer Duke Pearson on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Al Harewood on drums. The album is best known for the title piece, a slow blues composition which lasts for nearly 15 minutes. Pearson, who wrote the song, explains in his liner notes to the album that the tune was meant to be much shorter. Due to the musicians repeating the main melody twice, however, there was some confusion as to whether or not one chorus would consist of 16 or 32 measures. [http://www.jazz.com/music/2007/10/30/grant-green-idle-moments] Producer Alfred Lion was satisfied with the take, although he suggested that they do a retake to fit the song into a seven minute limit. However, the song had a special feeling to it which no subsequent take could recapture, so it was decided to release the first take on the album. Two other songs, "Jean De Fleur" and "Django," were re-recorded in shorter renditions to compensate for the length of the title track; the extended renditions of both songs can be heard on the 1998 RVG remaster of the album.

Track listing

Original LP

ide A

#Idle Moments (Pearson) – 14:56
#Jean De Fleur (Green) – 6:49

ide B

#Django (Lewis) – 8:44
#Nomad (Pearson) – 12:16

RVG remaster series CD reissue

#Idle Moments – 14:56
#Jean De Fleur – 6:49
#Django – 8:44
#Nomad – 12:16
#Jean De Fleur - 8:08 (alternate take)
#Django - 13:13 (alternate take)

Credits

(In alphabetical order)

*Al Harewood - Drums;
*Bobby Hutcherson - Vibraphone;
*Bob Cranshaw - Double Bass;
*Duke Pearson - Piano, wrote "Idle Moments" and "Nomad";
*Grant Green - jazz guitar, wrote "Jean De Fleur";
*Joe Henderson - Tenor saxophone;
*John Lewis - wrote "Django";
*Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder and produced by Alfred Lion;
*Cover art and cover photo by Reid Miles.