Let's Stay Together (Jimmy McGriff album)

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Let's Stay Together
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Studio album by
Jimmy McGriff
Released1972
Recorded1966 and January 1972
StudioNew York City
Genre Jazz
Length32:27
Label Groove Merchant
GM 506
Producer Sonny Lester
Jimmy McGriff chronology
Groove Grease
(1971)		Let's Stay Together
(1972)		 Fly Dude
(1972)

Let's Stay Together is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1966 and 1972 and released on the Groove Merchant label. [1] [2] [3]

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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 Stephen Cook said: "Let's Stay Together is a great set by one of the masters of the Hammond B-3 organ sound". [4] On All About Jazz Douglas Payne noted "The music, unfortunately, isn't terribly memorable. But the R&B covers benefit by McGriff's outstanding blues touch and the funky "Tiki" and the glorious blues of "Old Grand Dad" (the only originals) are what make a McGriff album worth every dollar. Although nothing too surprising happens here, McGriff fans will want to pick up on this cut-out classic" [5]

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Track listing

  1. "Let's Stay Together" (Al Green, Willie Mitchell, Al Jackson Jr.) – 2:45
  2. "Tiki" (Jimmy McGriff) – 4:20
  3. "Theme from Shaft" (Isaac Hayes) – 4:00
  4. "What's Going On" (Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland) – 4:33
  5. "Old Grand Dad" (McGriff, Thornel Schwartz) – 5:04
  6. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – 6:42
  7. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) – 5:03

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Payne, D. Jimmy McGriff Discography, accessed April 4, 2018
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: Groove Merchant Records 500 Series, accessed April 4, 2018
  3. ↑ Jazzlists: Album details, accessed April 4, 2018
  4. 1 2 Cook, Stephen. Let's Stay Together – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ Payne, D. All About Jazz Review, accessed April 4, 2018
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