Idle Moments
by Grant Green

Idle Moments by Grant Green
Year: 1965
Release date: 1965-02-00
Overall rank: 3,166th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 122 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1965 (26th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (272nd)
Award Best albums of all time (3,166th)

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Overall rank: 3,166th | 1960s rank: 272nd | 1965 rank: 26th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 122 votes)
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09/15/2026 08:11 ssteve  Ratings distribution  2,60476/100
 
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07/21/2026 17:14 Olli  Ratings distribution  7,93362/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.8/100, a mean average of 79.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.


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From kokkinos 03/04/2022 22:30 in I'm going back to the start
“Wow, this is super loud and super heavy. To think it’s only 1965 makes it even more impressive – though it has to be said Link Wray’s album that I’ve already brought up in this diary came out in 1960 (!!) and in the meantime there were some other efforts that did follow a similar approach, an…”
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Title track is so damn good. Django and Nomad are also enjoyable.

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A truly exceptional jazz album. Stupendous playing all-around. A classic! 9.5/10! (Edited)
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