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Your favourite Groove Merchant

Strider79itStrider79it 1,176 Posts
edited July 2005 in Strut Central
mmmmmm.......everybody love this.. ...but this is my fav.. what 's yours ?
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  • ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts
  • KineticKinetic 3,739 Posts
    Larry Willis - Inner Crisis LP

    Heavy jazzfunk!
  • dayday 9,611 Posts



    NO TROUBLE ON THE MOUNTAIN



    i'm for real.
  • upskibooupskiboo 2,396 Posts
    Larry Willis - Inner Crisis LP



    Heavy jazzfunk!



    Yeah, and Ramon Morris Sweet Sister Funk also...dope LPs!
  • peacefulrotationpeacefulrotation 3,481 Posts
  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts


  • dayday 9,611 Posts



    go to sleep focker
  • upskibooupskiboo 2,396 Posts
    YOO, If anybody outthere in SSland has the Jeremy Steig 2LP Groove Merchant Fusion record for trade throw me a PM, auwright!
  • Strider79itStrider79it 1,176 Posts




  • FlomotionFlomotion 2,390 Posts
    Not the best but it is my favourite...

  • upskibooupskiboo 2,396 Posts



    Jimmy McGriff-Groove Holmes-Reuben Wilson, all put out nasty organ juice on GM!
  • LooksLikeSinbadLooksLikeSinbad 187 Posts
    I like this:


    amd this:
  • upskibooupskiboo 2,396 Posts
    On the McGriff tip, I dig his mid 70's albums Mean Machine and Stump Juice, sleezy porno funk,....also Lonnie Smith's mid 70's GM's, Afrodesia and Keep On Loving!
  • Strider79itStrider79it 1,176 Posts
    On the McGriff tip, I dig his mid 70's albums Mean Machine and Stump Juice, sleezy porno funk,....

    wow I would like to hear that......
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    That Junior Parker album with the cover featuring the Asian child eating a watermelon.
  • Mike_BellMike_Bell 5,736 Posts


    but this is my fav..




    what 's yours ?


    I was rockin' this the other night. Mozambique and The Preacher's Tune is that fire.
  • upskibooupskiboo 2,396 Posts
    On the McGriff tip, I dig his mid 70's albums Mean Machine and Stump Juice, sleezy porno funk,....

    wow I would like to hear that......

    yo its not like some real crazy shit, but I dig it anyway, has that plastic cheesy slow-nearly-disco 75 popjazz vibe (very produced-very arranged), McGriff on various keyboards, were talking pimpsteez(again), and definitely funky!
  • upskibooupskiboo 2,396 Posts
    and by the way, gangster lean gangster mean, another dopeass GM release is Michael Longo's 900 Shares Of The Blues, one of my favorite GM's, no doubt!
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    you gotta hand it to sonny lester - when the rest of the jazz world was looking towards fusion, his groove merchant label really kept the soul-jazz thing alive. when i was a kid growing up in the 70's, seemed like every kid's parents had the mcgriff/holmes collaborations on 8-track. record stores in all the black neighborhoods had that GIANTS OF THE ORGAN COME TOGETHER elpee (by mcgriff and holmes) in the window display. those GM albums were SELLING in the hood.
  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts
    The Ramon Morris and Larry Willis are my two faves. And that Jeremy Steig fusion lp is pretty nice too.
  • upskibooupskiboo 2,396 Posts
    sonny lester -


  • Skip DrinkwaterSkip Drinkwater 1,694 Posts
    i don't really like that one at all. almost boring, predictable flute funk. i'd take ramon morris over that any day, or an early o'donnel levy lp
  • Strider79itStrider79it 1,176 Posts
    you gotta hand it to sonny lester - when the rest of the jazz world was looking towards fusion, his groove merchant label really kept the soul-jazz thing alive. when i was a kid growing up in the 70's, seemed like every kid's parents had the mcgriff/holmes collaborations on 8-track. record stores in all the black neighborhoods had that GIANTS OF THE ORGAN COME TOGETHER elpee (by mcgriff and holmes) in the window display. those GM albums were SELLING in the hood.

    oh man, thanks for sharing those nice memories.....I really think these artists that used to record for the groove merchant label, should be considered more in the music history..........why, when there are millions of books around abt the same 3 or 4 heavyweights, ain't no single book on the soul jazz scene ?

  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    Groove Merchant = CTI with worse covers.







  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    you gotta hand it to sonny lester - when the rest of the jazz world was looking towards fusion, his groove merchant label really kept the soul-jazz thing alive. when i was a kid growing up in the 70's, seemed like every kid's parents had the mcgriff/holmes collaborations on 8-track. record stores in all the black neighborhoods had that GIANTS OF THE ORGAN COME TOGETHER elpee (by mcgriff and holmes) in the window display. those GM albums were SELLING in the hood.

    oh man, thanks for sharing those nice memories.....

    Anytime. Growing up in an African-American neighborhood in Chicago in the 70's and 80's, I still tend to think of soul-jazz - lovingly - as "old black guy" music. Seems like if I went into any barbershop/tavern/diner where most of the clientele were black folks in their forties and up, that was the indigenous folk music (after the blues, of course). I'm too young to remember the days when every other bar in black-populated areas had a Hammond organ as a semi-permanent fixture, but there were still reminders of that time well into the Reagan years. If you went into south Chicago establishments like Gladys' Restaurant, at least half of the jukebox was jazz 45's. (The restaurant is still around, but the juke is all CD's now.) Mr. T.'s on 87th & Stony Island (now known as Coop's) sold all kinds of black music, but even in the eighties, it was mostly GM-type jazz that you heard on the store stereo. It wasn't just limited to instrumentalists, either - singers like Dakota Staton and Arthur Prysock appealed to this same audience. And you seldom read about these people in Down Beat.

    You know what the hell of it is? As soon as this kind of jazz turned into a big retro thing with white audiences in the 90's, many of the original artists and audience started dying off. Charles Earland lived just long enough to see the jazz organ resurgence, and he reportedly wasn't too happy that his recognition came so late.

    I really think these artists that used to record for the groove merchant label, should be considered more in the music history..........why, when there are millions of books around abt the same 3 or 4 heavyweights, ain't no single book on the soul jazz scene ?

    That's why I was so glad to see Jimmy McGriff get such in-depth coverage in a recent issue of Wax Poetics. No other time can I remember his career being examined in such minute detail. And he's still living, too!

    Sorry for the sermon, folks, but GM really was filling a void for certain audiences who weren't being served anymore (ca. '71-'76). I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.
  • mrpekmrpek 627 Posts
    I need to get my hands on some more Groove Merchant stuff
    Onne of the better ones I have is

    Pretty dope for listening and samples
  • Strider79itStrider79it 1,176 Posts
    I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.

    I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.

    I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.

    I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.

    I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.

    I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.

    I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.

    I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.

    I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.

    I guess not all jazz fans were listening to Billy Cobham.





    Oh man you are sooooo right !



    in italy every summer they organize many jazz festivals all around

    but the names are all the same.....





    one year you have



    Billy Cobham

    Ron Carter

    Pat Metheny

    Chick Corea

    Joe Zawinul

    and Keith Jarrett



    than next year it would be



    Chick Corea

    Pat Metheny

    Keith Jarrett

    Billy Cobham

    Joe Zawinul

    and ron Carter







    it's so damn boring..........obviously in the audience you see all these spoiled/intellectual/snobs that think they are watching "The Jazz" with capital "J" ...........



    you know they are subdued to the "cult of personality" and so after you heard 1 hour of Ron Carter everybody chhers anmd think they saw Jesus in person....



    probably they have multiple copies of "birth of the cool" but they don't have any Groove Merchant . ....ain't no fun in their jazz













  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    I think that "Fusion" record is a reissue of a couple Capitol lp's - "Energy" & another one. Right?
  • mrpekmrpek 627 Posts
    I'm not at home right now to check.....But now that you mention it I think it says parts of it were issued on another label....I may be wrong
  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    I think that "Fusion" record is a reissue of a couple Capitol lp's - "Energy" & another one. Right?

    I think one was on Capitol and the other was Solid State or something???
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