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Groove Collective | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Savoy Jazz
• ASIN: B000ESSTLK
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,588 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Speak Like A Child

2. Centerfield

3. Set Up

4. 6 For Fred

5. Outermost

6. Mambo Mongo

7. KOG

8. Tito

9. Eat No Space

10. What If

11. DFU

12. Forgotten Travelers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GC is still doin' it !!, April 28, 2006

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Indy Eddy (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: People People Music Music (Dig) (Audio CD)

Hey all you GC fans out there - it's time for a new groove! This is GC's 6th studio albulm (along with various live set CD's and so forth...). I'ts been 5 years since "It's All In Your Mind", and I'm loving this new one. We've got some worthwhile tracks going on here, and I'm just happy to here from them again. The first track, "Forgotten Travellers" is an appetizer that reminds you who GC is. Now, they're still doin' it with track 2, "DFU", which is a real catchy number, remnant of "Ransome" from "It's All In Your Mind". Of course, they have to give us one full vocal, so we've got #3, "what If", a funky track that actually makes you think about who you are as a person. I truly dig # 4, "Eat No Space". This is a sultry, moody slow song that reminds me of why I fell for this band to begin with. Then, "Tito" begins to wake you back up as a flavorful and melodically savvy track with some cool latin backgrounds. "KOG" is a great number that helps to satisfy the GC addict in all of us, with it's staple horn involvement, along with some intelligent keyboards coming thru (one of the best on the album, in my opinion). "Outermost" is another essential track that puts you in that quasi-spacy mood that we've all grown to love with GC. But just when you think that they've gone soft, the come strong with "Set Up," a spicy, funk-ridden, up-tempo groove that embodies the wild side of GC. "Speak like a Child" again gives us that loungy somber feeling that a true GC fan can't live without. They end with a neat live version of "Outermost" that's certainly worth hearing.
I encourage all GC fans to get this CD. All in all, it's a tad different, but they have lost none of their flavor and talent. As I construct a Groove Collective playlist on my computer, I'm pleased as punch to put these new gems in the mix. The more I listen, the more I appreciate this latest effort. A note to the band: In this day and age of "music" that is simply produced to sell, it is most refreshing to get this highly anticipated CD. Every time I introduce a listener to your material, they are impressed. Know that you have fans in the great state of Indiana!!

Yours Truly,

Eddie from Indy

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great comeback..., June 6, 2006

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Smitty (Atlanta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: People People Music Music (Dig) (Audio CD)

This release by groove collective feature a more focus approach on jazz rhythms with the already present latin flavor. This may have occurred due to the new signing with the Savoy Jazz label. At any rate, it's good music and still has a lot of the "collective" elements. Standout tracks are the loungy "what if" and the smooth "speak like a child". This one is worth getting.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, July 26, 2011

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Albert Schweizer "Dingsbums" (Frankfurt) - See all my reviews

This review is from: People People Music Music (Audio CD)

If you are a lover of Latin beats then Tito (Tito Puenti) and Mambomongo are worth purchasing the album for alone.
If you want something to drive you to work or drive you to a club then this is the one for you. It's one of the most overlooked albums I've heard in years.