I Want to Hold Your Hand (album)

I Want to Hold Your Hand is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label. Featuring jazz arrangements of pop songs (including the title track by The Beatles), Green is supported by organist Larry Young and drummer Elvin Jones from his previous sessions, along with tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

The AllMusic review by Steve Huey states, "Even with all the straightforward pop overtones of much of the material, the quartet's playing is still very subtly advanced, both in its rhythmic interaction and the soloists' harmonic choices. Whether augmented by an extra voice or sticking to the basic trio format, the Green/Young/Jones team produced some of the most sophisticated organ/guitar combo music ever waxed, and I Want to Hold Your Hand is the loveliest of the bunch".

Track listing

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 7:23
"Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 7:14
"Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 6:29
"Corcovado (Quiet Nights)" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 5:59
"This Could Be the Start of Something" (Steve Allen) – 7:08
"At Long Last Love" (Cole Porter) – 7:17

Personnel

Grant Green - guitar
Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone (tracks 1–4 & 6)
Larry Young - organ
Elvin Jones - drums

References

Billboard May 21, 1966
Grant Green discography accessed September 17, 2010
^ Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 17, 2010
Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 600. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

v t e Grant Green
Studio albums	Grant's First Stand (1961) Green Street (1961) Sunday Mornin' (1962) Grantstand (1962) The Latin Bit (1963) Feelin' the Spirit (1963) Am I Blue (1964) Idle Moments (1965) Talkin' About! (1965) His Majesty King Funk (1965) I Want to Hold Your Hand (1966) Street of Dreams (1967) Goin' West (1969) Carryin' On (1970) Green Is Beautiful (1970) Visions (1971) Shades of Green (1971) Iron City (1972) The Main Attraction (1976) Easy (1978) Matador (1979) Solid (1979) Remembering (1980) Gooden's Corner (1980) Nigeria (1980) Oleo (1980) Born to Be Blue (1985) The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark (1997) Blues for Lou (1999) First Session (2001)
Live albums	Alive! (1970) Live at The Lighthouse (1972) Live at Club Mozambique (2006)
Soundtracks	The Final Comedown (1972)
Grant Green discography

v t e Hank Mobley
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release, except for the compilation section
As leader or co-leader	Newark 1953 (1953 ) Hank Mobley Quartet (1955) The Jazz Message of Hank Mobley (1956) Mobley's Message (Prestige, 1956) Mobley's 2nd Message (Prestige, 1956) Jazz Message No. 2 (Savoy, 1956) Hank Mobley Sextet (1956) Hank Mobley and His All Stars (1957) Hank Mobley Quintet (1957) Hank (1957) Hank Mobley (1957) Curtain Call (1957) Poppin' (1957) Peckin' Time (1958) Monday Night at Birdland (1958) Another Monday Night at Birdland (1959) Soul Station (1960) Roll Call (1960) Workout (1961) Another Workout (1961) No Room for Squares (1963) Straight No Filter (1963–65) The Turnaround! (1964) Dippin' (1965) A Caddy for Daddy (1965) A Slice of the Top (1966) Far Away Lands (1967) Third Season (1967) Hi Voltage (1967) Reach Out! (1968) The Flip (1969) Thinking of Home (1970) Breakthrough! (1972)
With others	At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1955) At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1955) The Jazz Messengers (Art Blakey, 1956) Originally (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1956 ) At the Jazz Corner of the World (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1959) All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956) K.B. Blues (1957 ) Byrd's Eye View (Donald Byrd, 1955) Byrd in Flight (Donald Byrd, 1960) A New Perspective (1963) Mustang! (Donald Byrd, 1966) Blackjack (Donald Byrd, 1967) Dial "S" for Sonny (Sonny Clark, 1957) My Conception (Sonny Clark, 1957) Someday My Prince Will Come (Miles Davis, 1961) In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete (Miles Davis, 1961) Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (1961) Afro-Cuban (Kenny Dorham, 1955) Whistle Stop (Kenny Dorham, 1961) This Is New (Kenny Drew, 1957) Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960) Farmer's Market (Art Farmer, 1956) The Opener (Curtis Fuller, 1957) Sliding Easy (Curtis Fuller, 1959) Afro (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954) Dizzy and Strings (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954) Jazz Recital (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954–55) I Want to Hold Your Hand (Grant Green, 1965) A Blowin' Session (Johnny Griffin, 1957) My Point of View (Herbie Hancock, 1963) Informal Jazz (Elmo Hope, 1956) Goin' Up (Freddie Hubbard, 1960) Blue Spirits (Freddie Hubbard, 1965) The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 (1955) Together! (Elvin Jones and Philly Joe Jones, 1961) Midnight Walk (Elvin Jones, 1966) I Wanna Talk About You (Tete Montoliu, 1980) Introducing Lee Morgan (1956) Lee Morgan Sextet (1956) Cornbread (Lee Morgan, 1965) Charisma (1966) The Rajah (1966) Tenor Conclave (Prestige All Stars, 1957) Star Bright (Dizzy Reece, 1959) The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956) Good Move! (Freddie Roach 1963) The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953) Max Roach + 4 (1956) The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957) MAX (Max Roach, 1958) Yasmina, a Black Woman (Archie Shepp, 1969) Poem for Malcolm (Archie Shepp, 1969) Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1954–55) Silver's Blue (Horace Silver, 1956) 6 Pieces of Silver (Horace Silver, 1956–58) The Stylings of Silver (Horace Silver, 1957) A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One (1957) A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two (1957) Julius Watkins Sextet (1955)
Compilations	The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (1998) The Feelin's Good (2013)
Related articles	Discography

v t e Larry Young
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Testifying (1960) Young Blues (1960) Groove Street (1962) Into Somethin' (1964) Unity (1965) Of Love and Peace (1966) Contrasts (1967) Heaven on Earth (1968) Mother Ship (1969) Lawrence of Newark (1973) Spaceball (1976)
With Grant Green	Street of Dreams (1964) Talkin' About! (1964) His Majesty King Funk (1965) I Want to Hold Your Hand (1965)
With others	Double Exposure (Joe Chambers, 1978) Bitches Brew (Miles Davis, 1969) Big Fun (1969) Forrest Fire (Jimmy Forrest, 1960) Love Shout (Etta Jones, 1963) I'm Shooting High (Gildo Mahones, 1963) The Great Gildo (Gildo Mahones, 1963) Devotion (John McLaughlin, 1970) Love Devotion Surrender (Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, 1973) Gumbo! (Pony Poindexter and Booker Ervin, 1963) In the Beginning (Woody Shaw, 1965) Natural Soul (Buddy Terry, 1967) Emergency! (The Tony Williams Lifetime, 1969)

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