First Recordings

Grant Green

Gambit

Tracks recorded in 1959 by a group led by Jimmy Forrest. Seven of the tracks were originally released on the 1960 Jimmy Forrest LP All The Gin Is Gone.

Tracks

• Dog It (Forrest)
• But Beautiful (Burke / VanHeusen)
• Caravan (Ellintgton / Mills / Tizol)
• All the Gin Is Gone (Forrest)
• Sunkenfoal (Forrest)
• Laura (Mercer / Raksin)
• Myra (Forrest)
• All the Gin Is Gone (Forrest)
• Sunkenfoal (Forrest)
• You Go to My Head (Coots / Gillespie)
• Black Forrest (Forrest)
• What's New? (Burke / Haggart)
• These Foolish Things (Link / Strachey)
• Black Forrest (Forrest)
• What's New? (Burke / Haggart)

• Jimmy Forrest - tenor saxophone
• Grant Green - guitar
• Harold Mabern - piano
• Gene Ramey - bass
• Elvin Jones - drums

Seven of the tracks on this release were originally released on;

• All the Gin Is Gone, Jimmy Forrest, 1960