The Quarantined Jazz Voyager

This week another great album is being featured for us to listen to titled Street of Dreams recorded  at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 16, 1964 by jazz guitarist Grant Green. The album was produced by Alfred Lion, however, wasn’t released until August 1967 on the Blue Note label. The photograph used on the album cover features street signs that are at an actual street corner in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

The conversation between these four giants of jazz is comfortable and easy. They play off one another, adding to the strength of the album. Consisting of a mere four songs, one can hear the short story they create.

The album includes Billy May’s Somewhere in the Night, which was the theme of the television program Naked City, and Lazy Afternoon, from the 1954 musical The Golden Apple. On the whole, this is an enjoyable thirty-three minutes of mid~tempo jazz. While you’re listening, think about protecting your community as we continue to experience the ravages of this pandemic… which, by the way, although it may feel like it, hasn’t gone away yet people!

1. I Wish You Love (Léo Chauliac, Charles Trenet) ~8:46
2. Lazy Afternoon (John La Latouche, Jerome Moross) ~ 7:44
3. Street of Dreams (Victor Young, Sam M. Lewis) ~ 9:03
4. Somewhere in the Night (Billy May, Milt Raskin) ~ 8:01

• Grant Green ~ guitar
• Bobby Hutcherson ~ vibes
• Larry Young ~ organ
• Elvin Jones ~ drums

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