The Groover (Jimmy McGriff album)

The Groover is an album by organist Jimmy McGriff recorded in 1982 and released on the Jazz America Marketing (JAM) label.[1][2][3]

Movin' Upside the Blues
Studio album by
Jimmy McGriff
Released1982
RecordedJune 24, 1982
StudioRight Track Recording, NY
GenreJazz
Length42:16
LabelJazz America Marketing (JAM)
JAM 009
ProducerEsmond Edwards
Jimmy McGriff chronology
Movin' Upside the Blues
(1982)		 Movin' Upside the Blues
(1982)		 Countdown
(1983)

Reception

The Washington Post's Mike Joyce wrote: "Jazz organist Jimmy McGriff demonstrates on The Groover that no musician has a monopoly on the blues. Certainly not these blues -- the late-night, after-hours kind that once routinely spilled from tired jukeboxes at closing time ... The Groover lives up to its title and a tradition well worth renewing".[4]

Track listing
  1. "Night Train" (Jimmy Forrest) – 6:30
  2. "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:00
  3. "Soft" (Tiny Bradshaw) – 5:43
  4. "Song for My Father" (Horace Silver) – 4:57
  5. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) – 5:40
  6. "This One's for Ray" (Jimmy McGriff) – 8:26

Personnel

References
  1. Payne, D. Jimmy McGriff Discography, accessed October 22, 2018
  2. Jazzlists: Jazz America Marketing (JAM) LP discography, accessed October 22, 2018
  3. Jazzlists: album info, accessed October 22, 2018
  4. Joyce, M. Jimmy McGriff: Basically, It's the Blues, Washington Post, December 10, 1982, accessed October 22, 2018
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