“Earl Bostic didn’t have a chance to venture outside the honking R&B sphere often, and when he did he usually displayed the skills that were more evident in live performance. While this wasn’t the kind [More]
The Groover! is an album by jazz organist Richard “Groove” Holmes which was recorded in 1968 and released on the Prestige label. “Holmes acquits himself well, if with few surprises, on this trio session with [More]
Tell It Like It Tis is an album led by organist Richard “Groove” Holmes recorded in 1961 and 1962 and released on the Pacific Jazz label in 1966. “Very fine Hammond B-3 with Holmes, Gene [More]
Tracklist: A1 Disc-O-Mite (Holmes, Nelson) A2 Salsa De Alma 5:19 A3 Once Is Not Enough (Mancini, Kusik) 10:38 A4 Dumpy Mama (Oliver Nelson) 14:05 B1 “Six Million Dollar Man” Theme (Oliver Nelson) 18:50 B2 Double [More]
“By 1980, when Broadway was recorded, organist Richard “Groove” Holmes had already splashed onto the scene as an expansive adherent of Jimmy Smith’s soul-jazz gospel, been a player in the music’s modern boogaloo-acid jazz phase [More]
“Things Ain’t What They Used to Be” (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) from the album “Soul Mist!”. “Soul Mist!” is an album by jazz organist Richard “Groove” Holmes which was recorded in 1966 but not released on [More]
