Blue Groove

Richard 'Groove' Holmes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Prestige
• ASIN: B000000ZE4
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,651 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Get Up and Get It

2. Lee Ann

3. Body and Soul

4. Broadway

5. Groove's Blues Groove

6. Pennies from Heaven

7. Autumn Leaves

8. There Is No Greater Love

9. Denise

10. Things Ain't What They Used to Be

11. Up Jumped Spring

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two sixties albums on one CD disk, February 22, 2002

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Dr.D.Treharne (Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Groove (Audio CD)

This comprises two sixties albums recorded 10 months apart. Tracks 1-6 are tracks released as "Get up and get it" recorded in May 1967, and tracks 7 - 11 comprised the July 1966 album "Soul Mist!". There's no remastering on any tracks, but the orginal sound quality was good anyway. On the first album Teddy Edwards plays Tenor Sax and Pat Martino plays guitar with Paul Chambers (b) and Billy Higgins on drums. Overall the best tracks are Teddy Edwards title track, which gives everybody a chance to stretch out, and "Groove's Blue Groove" which as might be expected has a lot of Holmes solo. The other tracks illustrate the problem that artists had back in the sixties when record companies seemed to insist on "standards" to fill out albums. Here they try hard with the version of "Body and Soul" but it doesn't stand comparison with the two tracks mentioned above. The same criticism can be levelled at the second album though Greg Edwards who handled guitar duties sounds less integrated than Martino on the first album.There are two different drummers George Randle and Freddie Waits with Holmes provided bass with the pedals. Two favourite tracks are the ones which have Blue Mitchell on trumpet and Harold Vick on Tenor Sax, "There is no greater love"[but see comments above about material] and an excellent version of Duke Ellington's "Things aint what they used to be". There's also a good attempt by the basic quartet at Freddie Hubbard's "Up jumped spring". It's a good showcase for Holmes,and a good playing time for the money, but my reservations remain the choice of songs.