Muriel Grossmann alto, soprano, tenor saxophone
Radomir Milojkovic guitar
Tamas Szasz keyboards
Salvatore Licitra double bass
Uros Stamenkovic drums
Groove is the “feeling”, rhythmically expansive, or the sense of “swing” created by the interaction of music played by the rhythm section of a band, or by the form of which soloist, or the main group voice is playing . Groove is an important factor in the different subgenera of jazz, and from there to other genres such as salsa, funk, rock and soul.
Origins of a music with these characteristics can be found in the gospel music and the blues, where the rhythmic fervor is at the highest. Since then it is a basic and inseparable component of jazz. In the thirties, this way of understanding music found its main exponent in the figure of Count Basie Big Band and in its form of playing in a tight, satisfying and very rhythmic style, which contagiously reaches the spectators. With the arrival of Charlie Parker in the 40’s, jazz acquired its deep melodic and harmonic sophistication. From the appearance of the funky in the 50’s, the Groove concept returns to its origins of blues and gospel and, from the mid-60’s, new styles associated with those, funk and soul.
Major musicians of the 50s and 60s associated with soul jazz were the organists Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, John Patton, Richard Groove Holmes. The pianists: Les McCann, Horace Silver, Gene Harris, Junior Mance, saxophonists: Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Stanley Turrentine, Lou Donaldson, Gene Ammons and guitarists: Grant Green, Kenny Burrell and Boogaloo Joe Jones among others.
Thomas D. H. Foster
PHOTOS
Soul Jazz Explosion plays Kulturverein Arche Noe, Kufstein, Tirol, Austria — Oct 2017
Soul Jazz Explosion plays Jazz Fest Wieden, Vienna — Oct 2017