Gregory Groover Jr. - Old Knew - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Lovabye follows Groover's formidable first full-length album, Negro Spiritual Songbook, Vol. 2 (The Message), performed by his excellent Boston band in quartet or quintet configurations, contains Groover's arrangements of, as he then wrote, InchBlack America's praise music through jazz's evolving language to produce a radical theology that connects you to a higher power, Inch. Recorded in August 2019, it was released two years later, as society unwound from the Covid-19 pandemic. During the lockdown, Groover had generated a group of Inchlove songs and songs of people I love.Inch In spring 2023, he brought this music to Walter Smith III, who Groover had idolized as a teenager, and is now his friend and colleague at Berklee School of Music, their mutual alma mater, where Groover serves as Assistant Chair of the Ensemble Department. InchI told Walter I'd like to play with some of my other heroes and peers, Inch Groover recalls. InchHe said, 'What's stopping you? The music is there.' Luckily for me, everyone who I wanted to record with was available and happy to do it.Inch The Album was recorded August 16, 2023 at the GSI Studios, NYC. Producer Walter Smith III. Recording engineer Chris Allen. Sound engineer Mike Marciano did the mixing and mastering at Systems Two in NYC. Photography by Saito Ogata.

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