I Want To Hold Your Hand
Blue Note Tone Poet Series
Grant Green
Release Date December 1, 2023
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in a gatefold tip-on jacket. The trio of Grant Green, Larry Young, and Elvin Jones had a unique alchemy from the first time they got together on 1964’s Talkin’ About.
For 1965’s I Want To Hold Your Hand, they added Hank Mobley to the mix for sophisticated renditions of well-known songs by the Beatles, Antรดnio Carlos Jobim, Cole Porter, and more.
Blue Note Tone Poet Series is produced by Joe Harley, and mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes.
- “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (Lennon/McCartney)
- “Speak Low” (Nash/Weill)
- “Stella by Starlight” (Young/Washington)
- “Corcovado” (Jobim/Lees)
- “This Could Be the Start of Something” (Allen)
- “Blue Monk” (Monk)
- “C Jam Blues” (Bigard/Ellington)
