Stump Juice

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Stump Juice
Stump Juice.jpg
Studio album by
Jimmy McGriff
Released1975
Recorded1975
StudioNew York City, NY
Genre Jazz
Length34:54
Label Groove Merchant
GM 3309
Producer Sonny Lester
Jimmy McGriff chronology
The Main Squeeze
(1974)		Stump Juice
(1975)		 The Mean Machine
(1976)

Stump Juice is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff recorded in 1975 and released on the Groove Merchant label. [1] [2] [3]

Jimmy McGriff American organist

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Groove Merchant was an American jazz and R&B record label during the 1970s. It was run by producer Sonny Lester and distributed by Pickwick Records. Notable artists included Chick Corea, O'Donel Levy, Buddy Rich, Jimmy McGriff, and Lionel Hampton. Lester would later close Groove Merchant and restructure it as Lester Radio Corporation, or LRC, and have it distributed for a time by TK Records. Lester still retains the rights to the Groove Merchant/LRC back catalog and independently distributes them on compact disc.

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Allmusic's Jason Ankeny said: "'Unlike the majority of Groove Merchant dates from the mid-'70s, Stump Juice forgoes warhorse pop and soul covers in favor of original tunes – these tabulas rasa are the ideal canvas for Lester's bare-essentials production and McGriff's sinuous grooves, eschewing fusion and disco influences in favor of raw, unadulterated jazz-funk". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except where noted

  1. "Purple Onion" (Leo Johnson) – 5:46
  2. "The Little One" (Johnson) – 4:04
  3. "Stump Juice" (Jesse Morrison) – 3:37
  4. "Cumayon" (Johnson) – 3:30
  5. "T.N.T." – 5:51
  6. "Stretch Me Out" – 6:28
  7. "Pisces" (Jimmy Ponder) – 5:38

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Payne, D. Jimmy McGriff Discography, accessed April 9, 2018
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: Groove Merchant Records 3300 Series, accessed April 9, 2018
  3. ↑ Jazzlists: Album details, accessed April 9, 2018
  4. 1 2 Ankeny, Jason. Stump Juice – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 9, 2018.
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