Groove Drops
1970 studio album by Jimmy Smith
Groove Drops | ||||
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Studio album by Jimmy Smith | ||||
Released | 1970 | |||
Recorded | November 20, 1968 | |||
Genre | Jazz-funk, jazz fusion | |||
Length | 30:55 | |||
Label | Verve V6-8794 | |||
Producer | Johnny Pate | |||
Jimmy Smith chronology | ||||
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Singles from Groove Drops | ||||
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Groove Drops is a 1970 jazz album by Jimmy Smith, arranged, conducted and produced by Johnny Pate and released on the Verve label.[1][2]
On the Billboard albums chart, Groove Drops peaked at number 197, and at 13 on the top Jazz albums chart.[3]
Reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Allmusic awarded the album two and a half stars, with reviewer Ron Wynn writing that the album had a:
"Good title cut, nice solos throughout."[1]
Track listing
- "Groove Drops" (Jimmy Smith) – 4:15
- "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 5:50
- "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) – 6:00
- "Ode to Billie Joe" (Bobbie Gentry) – 6:25
- "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 3:40
- "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (Jimmy Webb) – 4:45
Personnel
- Jimmy Smith – Electronic organ
- Johnny Pate – arranger, conductor, producer
- George Piros – engineer
- Val Valentin – director of engineering
Chart performance
Album
Chart (1970) | Peak position | Total weeks |
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U.S. Billboard 200 | 197[3] | 3 |
References
External links
- Groove Drops at The Incredible Jimmy Smith site
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Jimmy Smith
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
albums
- A New Sound... A New Star... Volume 1 (1956)
- A New Sound A New Star: Jimmy Smith at the Organ Volume 2 (1956)
- The Incredible Jimmy Smith at the Organ (1956)
- At Club Baby Grand (1956)
- A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One (1957)
- A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two (1957)
- The Sounds of Jimmy Smith (1957)
- Plays Pretty Just for You (1957)
- Jimmy Smith Trio + LD (1957)
- Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise (1957)
- House Party (1958)
- The Sermon (1958)
- Softly as a Summer Breeze (1958)
- Cool Blues (1958)
- Six Views of the Blues (1958)
- Home Cookin' (1958–59)
- Crazy! Baby (1960)
- Open House (1960)
- Plain Talk (1960)
- Midnight Special (1960)
- Back at the Chicken Shack (1960)
- Straight Life (1961)
- Plays Fats Waller (1962)
- I'm Movin' On (1963)
- Bucket! (1963)
- Rockin' the Boat (1963)
- Prayer Meetin' (with Stanley Turrentine, 1963)
- One Night with Blue Note (1985)
albums
- Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith (1962)
- Hobo Flats (1963)
- Any Number Can Win (1963)
- Blue Bash! (with Kenny Burrell, 1963)
- The Cat (1964)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1964)
- Christmas '64 (1964)
- Monster (1965)
- Organ Grinder Swing (1965)
- Got My Mojo Workin' (1966)
- Hoochie Coochie Man (1966)
- Peter & the Wolf (1966)
- Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo (with Wes Montgomery, 1966)
- Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes (1966)
- Respect (1967)
- The Boss (1968)
- Groove Drops (1970)
- The Other Side of Jimmy Smith (1970)
- Root Down (1972)
- Bluesmith (1972)
- Damn! (1995)
- Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams (1995)
- Dot Com Blues (2000)
other labels
- Black Smith (1974)
- The Original Jam Sessions 1969 (Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby, 1969)
- Smackwater Jack (Quincy Jones, 1971)
- Ellington Is Forever (Kenny Burrell, 1975)
- Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Kenny Burrell, 1975)
- Straight Ahead (Stanley Turrentine, 1984)
- L.A. Is My Lady (Frank Sinatra, 1984)
- Bad (Michael Jackson, 1987)
- Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (Dee Dee Bridgewater, 1994)