Nigeria LP (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP Virgin Label Services Leon Thomas & Barbara Hicks

Leon Thomas & Barbara Hicks

the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village

4    Holiday

one for ’grew

Three years after the release of ARTEMIS’ critically acclaimed self-titled debut album

Nigeria LP (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP Virgin Label Services Leon Thomas & Barbara HicksGrant Greens Nigeria is an under recognized gem in the guitarists remarkable Blue Note catalog. Recorded in 1962, but not first released until 1980, the album features a top shelf band with Sonny Clark on piano, Sam Jones on bass, and, in one of his only appearances with Green, Art Blakey on drums. The groove is deep and wide right from the start on the Sonny Rollins classic Airegin followed by a version of the Gershwin standard It Aint Necessarily So