Your favourite Groove Merchant
Strider79it
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mmmmmm.......everybody love this.. 
...but this is my fav.. 
what 's yours ?
...but this is my fav.. what 's yours ?
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Heavy jazzfunk!
NO TROUBLE ON THE MOUNTAIN
i'm for real.
Yeah, and Ramon Morris Sweet Sister Funk also...dope LPs!
go to sleep focker
Jimmy McGriff-Groove Holmes-Reuben Wilson, all put out nasty organ juice on GM!
amd this:
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!
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 ?
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.
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.
Onne of the better ones I have is
Pretty dope for listening and samples
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 .
I think one was on Capitol and the other was Solid State or something???