Green Chimneys
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{{Infobox album
| name = Green Chimneys
| type = Album
| artist = Kenny Barron Trio
| cover = Green Chimneys.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1984
| recorded = July 9, 1983 and December 31, 1987
| venue =
| studio = Studio 44, Monster, Netherlands and Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
| genre = Jazz
| length = 67:51
| label = Criss Cross Jazz
Criss 1008
| producer = Gery Teekens
| chronology = Kenny Barron
| prev_title = Flight Path
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = 1+1+1
| next_year = 1984
}}
Green Chimneys is an album by pianist Kenny Barron which was recorded in Holland in 1983 and first released on the Dutch Criss Cross Jazz label.[https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1008.html Criss Cross Jazz: album entry] accessed January 9, 2017[http://www.jazzdisco.org/kenny-barron/catalog/#criss-cross-jazz-criss-1008 Kenny Barron Catalog] accessed January 9, 2017[http://kennybarron.com/recordings/green-chimneys/ Kenny Barron: recordings] accessed January 9, 2017 The 1988 CD reissue included six bonus tracks.[https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/kenny-barron-discography/ Enciclopedia del Jazz: Kenny Barron] accessed January 9, 2017Fitzgerald, M. [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Barron/kb-disc.php Kenny Barron Discography], accessed January 20, 2019
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|author2-link = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0 | page = 86}}
| rev3 = Tom Hull
| rev3Score = B+({{Rating-Christgau|hm3}}){{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=28 February 2018|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2608-Streamnotes-February-2018.html|title=Streamnotes|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|access-date=9 July 2020}}
}}
In his review on AllMusic, Scott Yanow stated "In the 1980s, Kenny Barron was recognized as one of jazz's top pianists, a modern mainstream master who two decades later is still in prime form."{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000200669|first=Scott|last=Yanow|label=Kenny Barron – Green Chimneys: Review|access-date=January 9, 2017}}
Track listing
- "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 4:38
- "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 5:46
- "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) – 11:42
- "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) – 7:26 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Green Chimneys" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:48
- "Straight, No Chaser" (Monk) – 6:10
- "Time Was" (Miguel Prado, Bob Russell) – 8:50 Misattributed on LP and CD to Harry Akst
- "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) – 6:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Morning Blues" (Kenny Barron) – 4:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Time Was" [take 2] (Prado, Russell) – 5:16 Bonus track on CD reissue
- Recorded at Studio 44, Monster, Netherlands on July 9, 1983 (tracks 1–3, 5–7 & 10) and at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on December 31, 1987 (tracks 4, 8 & 9)