Watch Grant Green perform seven songs live in Paris in 1969 - UNRELEASED

An unreleased 1969 Grant Green concert (live in Paris) recently surface on YouTube. Hopefully, this will get a proper release on home video someday transferred from the source videotapes.

Below is my guess of the setlist. Please correct me if I am wrong.

- Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing
- Oleo
- O Grande Amore
- All Day Long
- Sonnymoon for Two
- ? (not sure what this song is)
- I Wish You Love

 

He reportedly owned a blonde Epiphone Emperor with McCarty pickup.

 

O. M. G.
the only other gg footage ive seen, know of is that 3 min 70s clip from the all star gtr summit. this must be a french tv show. this is one of those freaking blue note mircales. its 43 minutes, jesus. and whoever shot this knew what they were doing, all kinds of closeup fret shots, the kind of, like u see on zappa concert vids im made a google chrome bookmark bar link to this right after my email

 

Great footage! Thanks.

 

Amazing. My favorite. Green is bad. Thanks for the link.

 

Yes, thank you for the link. What an outstanding guitar player. Stellar.

 

I'm not aware of any other recording of Green performing "O Grande Amor." It's a stunning rendition of that song.

This also appears to be the first complete, full length TV performance of Green to circulate. Amazing to finally see him performing at length after so long.

 

Wow, what a find.

 

Thanks, fantastic ! I'm a huge Green fan.

The bossa is Jobim's Insensatez.

 

Niceness - thanks.

 

As usually noted about Grant....check out the size of those paws. Yet still so agile.

 

Awesome. Grant Green is one of my jazz guitar favorites.

 

How does somethjng like this go un-"unearthed" for 45 years??!!

 

Wonderful! Thanks for posting.

jeff

 

Beautiful footage.
Great to finally see this guy in action.

 

Just be grateful it wasn't filmed by the BBC!

Those European TV crews really knew their stuff back then.
Well filmed live performances that weren't wiped as soon as they were shown once.
So much great Jazz and Blues footage survives thanks to those cats.

 

This is fantastic, amazing stuff. Thanks to the OP and whomever unearthed it/found it/put it on youtube.

 

The host says that the first tune played is "Open Up the Door" by James Brown. Is this correct? Am not familiar with JB much... Then "Oleo", then the Jobim song, then a blues number entitled "Blues Grant"... Is this what the host says? Larry Ripley (sp.) on the bass?

Just played the first one, for the little time I have now. Many thanks for sharing this awesome find!

 

Wow it's absolutely stunning to see him pull off those runs on the neck. He'll always be my favorite Jazz guitarist. But I wonder if this is earlier than 1969. I know the records he put out from 1969 on were really soulful & funky. Though he does play that JB tune that he recorded in 1969, so I my be wrong. I love both his jazz & soul eras.

 

It does sounds like it, in a different key.

 

Yes, that's correct. The first song, as I noted in my first post above, is called: "Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (aka Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don't_Want_Nobody_to_Give_Me_Nothing

However, I was wrong about the name of the bossa number. It's not "O Grande Amor," but rather "How Insensitive."

I"m pretty sure the blues number is Kenny Burrell's "All Day Long." Green performed "All Day Long" on Rusty Bryant's 1969 Prestige album Rusty Bryant Returns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Bryant_Returns

Anyone know the title of song 6 below?

1. Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing
2. Oleo
3. O Grande Amor
3. How Insensitive
4. All Day Long
5. Sonnymoon for Two
6. ? (not sure what this song is)
7. I Wish You Love

 

The James Brown song "Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing" was published in March 1969; therefore, the video cannot have been recorded earlier than 1969. Kenny Burrell reportedly brought Green on this European tour in 1969.

 

The great thing about this Paris setlist is that it shows Green's range as a musician. Rather than just playing boogaloo vamps like the commercial Blue Note albums of the late 60s and early 70s, Green plays a Miles Davis number (Oleo), a Sonny Rollins number (Sonnymoon for Two), a Jobim bossa (How Insensitive), a Burrell blues (All Day Long) and a standard (I Wish You Love). This shows him as a much more complete musician than the late period boogaloo Blue Notes Lps allowed him to express.

 

The sixth song is "How Could You Do a Thing Like That To Me" as identified by Jim R on the organissimo forum. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/76585-grant-green-french-tv-69-43-min-of-grant/

Setlist:
1. Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing
2. Oleo
3. How Insensitive
4. All Day Long
5. Sonnymoon for Two
6. How Could You Do a Thing Like That To Me
7. I Wish You Love