LOVABYE

$20.21
Label
CRISS CROSS
Release Date
May 31, 2024
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      GROOVER, GREGORY
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 31, 2024
    • UPC
      8712474141920
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CSS1419.2
    • LABEL
      CRISS CROSS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. 30

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore

    2. Bygone Towers

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Matthew Stevens, Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore

    3. May All Your Storms Be Weathered

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Matthew Stevens, Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore

    4. Joy

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore

    5. Lovabye

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore

    6. Stages

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore

    7. 5660

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore

    8. Ambivalence

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore

    9. Lovabye Theme

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore

    10. In for a Pound or Penny

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore

    11. Cactus Lullaby

      Composer: Gregory Groover Jr.

      Performer: Gregory Groover Jr., Matthew Stevens, Vicente Archer, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Marcus Gilmore


Lovabye follows Groover's formidable first full-length album, Negro Spiritual Songbook, Vol. 2 (The Message), performed by his excellent Boston band in quartet or quintet configurations, contains Groover's arrangements of, as he then wrote, "Black America's praise music through jazz's evolving language to produce a radical theology that connects you to a higher power, ". Recorded in August 2019, it was released two years later, as society unwound from the Covid-19 pandemic. During the lockdown, Groover had generated a group of "love songs and songs of people I love." In spring 2023, he brought this music to Walter Smith III, who Groover had idolized as a teenager, and is now his friend and colleague at Berklee School of Music, their mutual alma mater, where Groover serves as Assistant Chair of the Ensemble Department. "I told Walter I'd like to play with some of my other heroes and peers, " Groover recalls. "He said, 'What's stopping you? The music is there.' Luckily for me, everyone who I wanted to record with was available and happy to do it." The Album was recorded August 16, 2023 at the GSI Studios, NYC. Producer Walter Smith III. Recording engineer Chris Allen. Sound engineer Mike Marciano did the mixing and mastering at Systems Two in NYC. Photography by Saito Ogata.