{"id":27826,"date":"2025-04-23T10:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27826"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:31:23","slug":"music-night-glider-groove-holmes-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27826","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Night Glider, \u2018Groove\u2019 Holmes, 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6818-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27824\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6818-1.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6818-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6818-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6818-1-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_6818-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27825\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">One of a three-fer set of CDs that arrived some while back, comprising: <em>Night Glider<\/em>, <em>New Groove<\/em> and <em>American Pie<\/em>, all on the Groove Merchant label (reissued on CD, in Japan, 2018-19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">Real \u2018grits n\u2019 gravy\u2019 type soul jazz. A style that I simply adore. Joyful, sometimes quite rambunctious, but always dripping with, well\u2026 soul.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">And do they groove!? Hell, yeah. Never was a player more aptly named! It may seem odd that there should be organ, electric piano <em>and<\/em> guitar. But these guys never get in each other\u2019s way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">It\u2019s quite a full and saturated sound, what with the congas and bongos, in addition to trap drums, plus the three chordal instruments, topped off with a horn duo\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">Boy does it ever have energy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse p3\">TRACKLIST:<br><br>Night Glider (Ott) 5:20<br>Fly Jack (Ott) 3:34<br>It\u2019s Going To Take Some Time (King\/Stern)&nbsp;4:30<br>Pure Sugar Cane (Holmes) 4:59<br>Go Away Little Girl (Goffin\/King) 5:32<br>One Mint Julep (Toombs) 4:55<br>Young &amp; Foolish (Hague\/Horwitt) 4:22<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse p3\">PERSONNEL:<br><br>\u2018Groove\u2019 Holmes - organ<br>Seldon Powell - tenor horn<br>Garnett Brown - \u2018bone&nbsp;<br>Horace Ott - electric piano<br>Lloyd Davis - guitar<br>Paul Martinez - bass<br>Bernard \u2018Pretty\u2019 Purdie - drums<br>Kwasi Jayourba - congas &amp; bongos<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of a three-fer set of CDs that arrived some while back, comprising: Night Glider, New Groove and American Pie, all on the Groove Merchant label (reissued on CD, in Japan, 2018-19). Real \u2018grits n\u2019 gravy\u2019 type soul jazz. A style that I simply adore. Joyful, sometimes quite rambunctious, but always dripping with, well\u2026 soul.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Night Glider, \u2018Groove\u2019 Holmes, 1973&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-7eO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27866,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions\/27866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}