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The Grass Is Greener

Recorded	Mar 1, 1965
Label	Atlantic
Released	1965
Personnel	6 credited players
Discogs	master 294039

The record

Grant Green's guitar and Big John Patton's organ dig into a thick groove while Clark Terry slides in flugelhorn asides -- Oliphant leads from the kit but lets his sidemen do the talking, cut for Atlantic in early '65.

Session personnel

Major Holley — bass
Grassella Oliphant — drums
Grant Green — guitar
John Patton — organ
Harold Ousley — tenor saxophone
Clark Terry — trumpet, flugelhorn, trumpet [pocket]

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

1967	Atlantic · 1494 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1967	Atlantic · SD 1494 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing
1967	Atlantic · SD 1494 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1967	Atlantic · SD 1494 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, MO - Monarch Pressing
1967	Atlantic · SD 1494 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, CT - Terre Haute Press
1967	Atlantic · 1494 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono, MO - Monarch Pressing
1967	Atlantic · 1494 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, MO - Monarch Pressing
1967	Atlantic · SD 1494 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Press
2000	Atlantic · AMCY-1285 — CD, HDCD, Album, Reissue, Stereo
2003	Atlantic — STEREO
2013	Atlantic · WPCR-27387 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered