Groove Grease
# Groove Grease

Groove Grease is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1971 and released on the Groove Merchant label.

## Reception

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |

Allmusic's Rob Theakston said: "This 1971 session finds McGriff continuing to do like so many other jazz musicians of the time: embrace and adapt to the emergence of funk and soul into mainstream music, and recontextualize it in a jazz arena. The results are an unsurprisingly delicious slice of jazz-funk made from the finest ingredients. ... While McGriff's adventurous side is slightly tamed, it's that willingness to improv and blend together as a cohesive unit that makes Groove Grease such a tasty statement that is consistently fresh with repeated listenings".

## Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except where noted

* "Groove Grease" – 3:33
* "The Bird" (Jimmy McGriff, Sonny Lester) – 3:14
* "Plain Brown Bag" – 3:36
* "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 4:48
* "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel) – 3:30
* "Mr. Lucky" (Henry Mancini) – 3:44
* "Moonglow" (Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange) – 3:24
* "Red Sails in the Sunset" (Hugh Williams, Jimmy Kennedy) – 3:07
* "Secret Love" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:32

## Personnel

* Jimmy McGriff – organ
* Murray Watson – trumpet
* Cliff Davis – tenor saxophone, flute
* Johnny Beard – baritone saxophone, flute
* Horace Ott – electric piano
* Everett Barksdale, Wayne Bennett – guitar
* Richard Davis, Richard Evans – bass
* Marion J. Booker – drums
* Lawrence Killian – percussion
