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Stop And Listen

'Baby Face' Willette

Recorded	May 22, 1961
Label	Blue Note
Catalog	BLP 4084
Released	1961
Personnel	3 credited players
Discogs	master 348422

The record

Recorded that same year with no horn to lean on, this trio session strips things back to organ, guitar, and drums. Green's lines stay clean and unhurried while Dixon's backbeat gives the hymn-like themes room to breathe.

Session personnel

Ben Dixon — drums
Grant Green — guitar
'Baby Face' Willette — organ

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 17 pressings on file.

1962	Blue Note · BLP 4084 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · deep groove; Plastylite ear
2025	Blue Note · 6514975 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180g Classic Vinyl · RVG stamp
1966	Blue Note · BLP 4084 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono · deep groove
1994	Blue Note · B1-28998 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo, 180 gram · RVG stamp
1994	Blue Note · CDP 7243 8 28998 2 2 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Super Bit Mapping (SBM) · RVG stamp
1999	Blue Note · TOCJ-9143 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Paper Sleeve · RVG stamp
2009	Blue Note · 50999 2 65143 2 1 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered · RVG stamp
2009	Blue Note · 50999 2 65143 2 1 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered · RVG stamp
1962	Blue Note · BLP 4084 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1990	Blue Note — STEREO, LIMITED EDITION
1993	Blue Note · TOCJ-4084 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1993	Blue Note · TOCJ-4084 — CD, Album, Promo, Reissue, Stereo
2005	Blue Note · TOCJ-6574 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Promo, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
2009	Blue Note · TOCJ-8598 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered