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| 1. | Broadway
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| 2. | Hackensack
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| 3. | Stella by Starlight
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| 4. | Good Vibrations
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| 5. | My One and Only Love
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| 6. | Plenty, Plenty Blues
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| 7. | Do Nothin' Til You Hear from Me
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| 8. | Groove's Groove
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| 9. | Where or When
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| 10. | Blues All Day Long
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Jazz / Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop
Richard "Groove" Holmes - Organ, Synthesizer
Adam Dorn - Compilation Producer
Bob DeVos - Guitar
Bobby Ward - Drums
Bross Townsend - Piano
Buddy Caldwell - Conga
Cecil Bridgewater - Trumpet
Cecil Brooks III - Drums
David Schnitter - Sax (Tenor)
Gerald "Eli" Smith - Guitar
Gerald Smith - Guitar
Greg Bandy - Drums
Henry Taylor - Guitar
Houston Person - Original Recording Producer, Producer, Sax (Tenor)
Idris Muhammad - Drums
Jimmy Ponder - Guitar
Jimmy Witherspoon - Vocals
Ralph Dorsey - Conga, Percussion
Steve Giordano - Guitar
* Amy DiDonato - Production Coordination
* Bob Porter - Original Recording Producer, Producer
* Gene Paul - Mastering
* Joe Fields - Original Recording Producer, Producer
* Joel Dorn - Compilation Producer, Series Producer
* Lance Goler - Compilation Producer
* Nancy Dwyer - Graphic Design, Illustrations
* Page Simon - Graphic Design
When 32 Jazz acquired the Muse catalogue in the late 1990s, the New York label had a goldmine of hard bop, post-bop and soul-jazz to reissue. Organ combos were one of Muse's strong points, and the company generally did right by Richard "Groove" Holmes, who signed with Muse in the 1970s and stayed there up until his death from a massive heart attack at the age of 60 on June 29, 1991. Released in 1997, this compilation spans 1977-1988 and points to the fact that the organist's Muse output wasn't much different from his Prestige dates of the 1960s. At Muse, Holmes excelled not by breaking new ground, but by sticking with what he did best: aggressive hard bop, groovin' blues and romantic ballads. Ranging from the fast, intense swinging of "Broadway" and "Good Vibrations" to the romantic ballad playing of "My One and Only Love" to the funky blues of "Blues All Day Long," Groove's Groove paints an impressive picture of Holmes' late period. The title tune shouldn't be confused with the "Groove's Groove" that opens his 1965 Prestige date Soul Message, although both are 12-bar blues numbers. Muse often united Holmes with Houston Person, and the tenor titan is in good-to-excellent form on most of the CD's ten selections. For those exploring Holmes' Muse output for the first time, Groove's Groove wouldn't be a bad starting point.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
Richard "Groove" Holmes
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: May 02, 1931 in Camden, NJ
Died: Jun 29, 1991 in St. Louis, MO
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop
Revered in soul-jazz circles, Richard "Groove" Holmes was an unapologetically swinging Jimmy Smith admirer who could effortlessly move from the grittiest of blues to the most sentimental of ballads. Holmes, a very accessible, straightforward and warm player who was especially popular in the black community, had been well respected on the Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey circuit by the time he signed with Pacific Jazz in the early '60s and started receiving national attention by recording with such greats as Ben Webster and Gene Ammons. Holmes, best known for his hit 1965 version of "Misty," engaged in some inspired organ battles with Jimmy McGriff in the early '70s before turning to electric keyboards and fusion-ish material a few years later. The organ was Holmes' priority in the mid- to late '80s, when he recorded for Muse. Holmes was still delivering high-quality soul-jazz for that label (often featuring tenor titan Houston Person) when a heart attack claimed his life at the age of 60 in 1991.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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