Movin' & Groovin'

by Horace Parlan

Movin' & Groovin' cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: June 1960
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:15
  • Community rating: 3.56/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Making his debut as a leader for the iconic label, the pianist overcomes childhood polio that crippled his right hand by developing a brilliantly rhythmic, heavily chordal left-hand technique. The trio setting highlights this deeply bluesy, percussive approach, heavily forecasting the earthy soul-jazz movement that would define the imprint in the 1960s.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, improvisation, technical, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. C-Jam Blues (5:13)
  2. On Green Dolphin Street (5:30)
  3. Up In Cynthia's Room (5:26)
  4. Lady Bird (5:04)
  5. Bags' Groove (5:49)
  6. Stella By Starlight (6:05)
  7. There Is No Greater Love (6:46)
  8. It Could Happen to You (3:19)

Credits

  • Horace Parlan - primary artist, piano, written-by
  • Sam Jones - bass
  • Al Harewood - drums
  • Duke Ellington - written-by
  • Bronislaw Kaper - written-by
  • Ned Washington - written-by
  • Tadd Dameron - written-by
  • Milt Jackson - written-by

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