Soul Message

Soul Message
Studio album by Richard "Groove" Holmes
Released 1965
Recorded August 3, 1965
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length 34:33
Label Prestige
PR 7435
Producer Cal Lampley
Richard "Groove" Holmes chronology
Book of the Blues Vol. 1
(1964)Book of the Blues Vol. 11964		 Soul Message
(1965)		 Living Soul
(1966)Living Soul1966

Soul Message is an album by jazz organist Richard "Groove" Holmes which was recorded in 1965 and released on the Prestige label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Organist Richard "Groove" Holmes hit upon a successful formula on this Prestige session mixing together boogaloo rhythms with emotional solos... Groove Holmes shows that it is possible to create music that is both worthwhile and commercially successful".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Richard "Groove" Holmes except as noted

  1. "Groove's Groove" - 7:06
  2. "Daahoud" (Clifford Brown) - 5:41
  3. "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) - 6:03
  4. "Song for My Father" (Horace Silver) - 6:08
  5. "The Things We Did Last Summer" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 6:06
  6. "Soul Message" - 3:25

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Prestige Records discography accessed May 3, 2013
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic listing accessed May 3, 2013
  3. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 105. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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