Grant Green: 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' 1965
The album's quartet—Green, Larry Young, Hank Mobley and Elvin Jones—was unbeatable.
On March 31, 1965, at the height of Beatlemania in the U.S., guitarist Grant Green recorded a jazz rendition of the Fab Four’s 1964 hit, I Want to Hold Your Hand. What makes this album special isn’t the Lennon-McCartney track set to a light bossa rhythm. It’s Green’s backing band.
The quartet featured Grant Green (g), Hank Mobley (ts on all tracks except
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