Onsaya Joy

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Onsaya Joy
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Live album by
Released1975
RecordedAugust 1974
Venue Half Note, New York City
Genre Jazz, Soul jazz
Length41:06
Label RCA/Flying Dutchman
BDL 1-0827
Producer Bob Thiele
Groove Holmes chronology
New Groove
(1974)
Onsaya Joy
(1975)
Six Million Dollar Man
(1975)

Onsaya Joy is a live album by organist Groove Holmes recorded in 1974 and released by the Flying Dutchman label the following year. [1] [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) − 7:03
  2. "Onsaya Joy" (Richard Holmes) − 15:10
  3. "Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) − 7:50
  4. "Song for My Father" (Horace Silver) − 6:08
  5. "Misty" (Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke) − 4:55

Personnel

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