The Groove: Grant Green

dimanche 20 avril 2008

Grant Green

Grant Green est un des plus grands guitaristes de jazz.
Il a joué avec Lou Donaldson, Hank Mobley, Jimmy Smith, Herbie Hancock, Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Art Blakey, etc.
En 1969, il crée un groupe influencé par le funk. Les enregistrements de cette époque sont des succès commerciaux.

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Groove style

Soul and funk
The "groove" is also associated with funk performers, such as James Brown's drummers Clyde Stubblefield and Jabo Starks, and with soul music. "In the 1950s, when "funk" and "funky" were used increasingly as adjectives in the context of soul music -- the meaning being transformed from the original one of a pungent odor to a re-defined meaning of a strong, distinctive groove." As "[t]he soul dance music of its day, the basic idea of funk was to create as intense a groove as possible."[12] When a drummer plays a groove that "is very solid and with a great feel...,this is referred to informally as being "in the pocket"; when a drummer "maintains this feel for an extended period of time, never wavering, this is often referred to as a deep pocket."[13] A concept similar to "groove" or "swing" is also used in other African-American genres: "What old jazz heads called “swing,” hip hop
Jazz
In some more traditional styles of jazz, the musicians often use the word "swing" to describe the sense of rhythmic cohesion of a skilled group. However, since the 1950s, musicians from the organ trio and latin jazz subgenres have also used the term "groove". Jazz flute player "Herbie Mann talks a lot about "the groove." In the 1950s, Mann "locked into a Brazilian groove in the early '60s, then moved into a funky, soulful groove in the late '60s and early '70s. By the mid-'70s he was making hit disco records, still cooking in a rhythmic groove." He describes his approach to finding the groove as follows: "All you have to do is find the waves that are comfortable to float on top of." Mann argues that the "epitome of a groove record" is "Memphis Underground or Push Push", because the "rhythm

The Groove

dimanche 20 avril 2008

Grant Green

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