No guitarist has ever handled standards and ballads with the brilliance of Grant Green. His association with the Blue Note label from 1961 to 1965 produced some of the finest guitar jazz ever recorded. Grant made more Blue Note LPs as leader and sideman than anyone else. In 1969 Green returned with a new funk influenced band and subsequently became the most sampled musician besides James Brown on the rare-groove circuit. Grant left Blue Note in 1974 and continued to record his brand of soul-jazz on a variety of labels, culminating in 1978 when he recorded “Easy” with an all-star cast of friends including Hank Crawford and Jon Faddis. This would prove to be Grant’s last recording - while in New York to play an engagement at George Benson’s Breezin’ Lounge, on January 31, 1979, Grant collapsed in his car of a heart attack. Now, nearly 30 years after his death, “Easy” appears for the first time as a domestic release on CD to the delight of jazz fans everywhere.

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01. Easy 02. Just The Way You Are 03. Wave 04. Empanada 05. Nighttime in The Switching Yard 06. Three Times A Lady