Groove Grease
Groove Grease | ||||
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Studio album by Jimmy McGriff | ||||
Released | 1971 | |||
Recorded | 1971 | |||
Studio | New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz-funk | |||
Label | Groove Merchant GM 503 | |||
Producer | Sonny Lester | |||
Jimmy McGriff chronology | ||||
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Groove Grease is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1971 and released on the Groove Merchant label.[1][2][3]
Reception
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Allmusic's Rob Theakston said: "This 1971 session finds McGriff continuing to do like so many other jazz musicians of the time: embrace and adapt to the emergence of funk and soul into mainstream music, and recontextualize it in a jazz arena. The results are an unsurprisingly delicious slice of jazz-funk made from the finest ingredients. ... While McGriff's adventurous side is slightly tamed, it's that willingness to improv and blend together as a cohesive unit that makes Groove Grease such a tasty statement that is consistently fresh with repeated listenings".[4]
Track listing
All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except where noted
- "Groove Grease" – 3:33
- "The Bird" (Jimmy McGriff, Sonny Lester) – 3:14
- "Plain Brown Bag" – 3:36
- "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 4:48
- "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel) – 3:30
- "Mr. Lucky" (Henry Mancini) – 3:44
- "Moonglow" (Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange) – 3:24
- "Red Sails in the Sunset" (Hugh Williams, Jimmy Kennedy) – 3:07
- "Secret Love" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:32
Personnel
- Jimmy McGriff – organ
- Murray Watson – trumpet
- Cliff Davis – tenor saxophone, flute
- Johnny Beard – baritone saxophone, flute
- Horace Ott – electric piano
- Everett Barksdale, Wayne Bennett – guitar
- Richard Davis, Richard Evans – bass
- Marion J. Booker – drums
- Lawrence Killian – percussion
External links
- Jimmy McGriff - Groove Grease
References
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- The Big Band (1966)
- A Bag Full of Soul (1966)
- Cherry (1966)
- A Bag Full of Blues (1967)
- I've Got a New Woman (1967)
- Honey (1968)
- The Worm (1968)
- Step 1 (1969)
- A Thing to Come By (1969)
- The Way You Look Tonight (1969)
- Electric Funk (1970)
- The Dudes Doin' Business (1970)
- Soul Sugar (1970)
- Something to Listen To (1971)
- Groove Grease (1971)
- Let's Stay Together (1972)
- Fly Dude (1972)
- Giants of the Organ Come Together (1973)
- The Main Squeeze (1974)
- Stump Juice (1975)
- The Mean Machine (1976)
- Red Beans (1976)
- Tailgunner (1977)
- City Lights (1981)
- Movin' Upside the Blues (1982)
- The Groover (1982)
- Countdown (1983)
- Skywalk (1984)
- State of the Art (1985)
- Soul Survivors (1986)
- The Starting Five (1987)
- Steppin' Up (1987)
- Blue to the 'Bone (1988)
- On the Blue Side (1990)
- You Ought to Think About Me (1990)
- The Dream Team (1997)
- Road Tested (1997)
- Straight Up (1998)
- Crunch Time (1999)
- McGriff's House Party (2000)
- Feelin' It (2001)
- McGriff Avenue (2002)
- Black Pearl (1971)
- Concert: Friday the 13th – Cook County Jail (1973)
- Giants of the Organ in Concert (1973)