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The Groover (Jimmy McGriff album)

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Movin' Upside the Blues
Studio album by
Released1982
RecordedJune 24, 1982
StudioRight Track Recording, NY
GenreJazz
Length42:16
LabelJazz America Marketing (JAM)
JAM 009
ProducerEsmond Edwards
Jimmy McGriff chronology
Movin' Upside the Blues
(1982)
Movin' Upside the Blues
(1982)
Countdown
(1983)

The Groover is an album by organist Jimmy McGriff, recorded in 1982 and released on the Jazz America Marketing (JAM) label.[1][2][3]

Reception

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The Washington Post's Mike Joyce wrote: "Jazz organist Jimmy McGriff demonstrates on The Groover that no musician has a monopoly on the blues. Certainly not these blues -- the late-night, after-hours kind that once routinely spilled from tired jukeboxes at closing time ... The Groover lives up to its title and a tradition well worth renewing".[4]

Track listing

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  1. "Night Train" (Jimmy Forrest) – 6:30
  2. "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:00
  3. "Soft" (Tiny Bradshaw) – 5:43
  4. "Song for My Father" (Horace Silver) – 4:57
  5. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) – 5:40
  6. "This One's for Ray" (Jimmy McGriff) – 8:26

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Payne, D. Jimmy McGriff Discography, accessed October 22, 2018
  2. ^ Jazzlists: Jazz America Marketing (JAM) LP discography, accessed October 22, 2018
  3. ^ Jazzlists: album info, accessed October 22, 2018
  4. ^ Joyce, M. Jimmy McGriff: Basically, It's the Blues, Washington Post, December 10, 1982, accessed October 22, 2018