Cal Green — Trippin' With Cal Green 1969 (USA, Jazz-Funk-Soul)

Cal Green — Trippin' With Cal Green 1969 (USA, Jazz-Funk-Soul)

The debut solo album by the Texas guitarist and Hank Ballard's bandmate in The Midnighters. The album was recorded in Torrance, California, in 1969. Cal Green died on July 4, 2004, in Lake View Terrace, California.

Trippin' with Cal Green Review by Jason Ankeny
The back cover of Trippin' with Cal Green bears the message "This Album Should Be Titled MONSTER," and it's the absolute truth -- this blissed-out psychedelic jazz opus boasts some of the most extraordinarily funky guitar ever committed to vinyl. Best known for his collaboration with acid jazz pioneer Charles Kynard, who contributes some incendiary organ here, Green deserves mention in the same breath as fellow post-Wes Montgomery greats Grant Green and Eddie Fisher -- his vividly soulful leads are somehow both earthy and otherworldly. His virtuosity even transcends paint-by-numbers originals like "Mellow in Blue" and "Johnny's Gone to Vietnam" -- the album's highlight is nevertheless its hypnotic cover of Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour."

Tracks:

01. Trippin - 0:00

02. Sweet September - 4:57

03. Days Of Wine And Roses - 8:47

04. Sieda - 15:41

05. My Cherie Amour - 22:12

06. Mellow In Blue - 26:08

07. Johnny's Gone To Vietnam - 29:16


Personnel:

Cal Green - guitar
Charles Kinard – organ, piano
Tracy Wright - electric bass
Billy Moore - drums, percussion
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Joey Jefferson - producer


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