Gregory Groover Jr. – Old Knew CD Release

Description

Title: Old Knew
Artist: Gregory Groover Jr.
Label: Criss Cross
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 8712474142828
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2025-11-21
Number of Discs: 1
Old Knew is Gregory Groover, Jr’s follow-up to his 2024 Criss Cross debut, Lovabye, on which – in the exalted company of Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Vicente Archer and Marcus Gilmore – he projected his soulful, reflective tenor saxophone voice throughout an 11-track recital of, as Groover puts it, original “love songs and songs of people I love.” On Old Knew, Groover, 32, addresses similarly inspired repertoire from a different angle, eliciting collective kineticism and creative spirit from a pan-generational A-list quintet, comprising Ross, the nonpareil 30-year-old vibraphonist; Paul Cornish, the 20-something pianist; and the glorious drummer Kendrick Scott and bass provocateur Harish Raghavan, both 40-something. Total CD time: 53:49 min
Tracks:
1.1 Spaces (3:27)
1.2 551 (7:00)
1.3 Go for Broke (4:45)
1.4 Rain Shall Fall (5:48)
1.5 Retrogade (6:38)
1.6 Sumner (3:03)
1.7 Good Sir (5:07)
1.8 Juanita and Betty (3:36)
1.9 William and Vinson (4:40)
1.10 Old Knew (7:33)
1.11 Arrivals (2:02)

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