Old Knew - Gregory Groover Jr. - Audio CD (Arrives in 20 days)

Old Knew is Gregory Groover, Jr’s follow-up to his
2024 Criss Cross debut, Lovabye (Criss 1419), on which
– in the exalted company of Joel Ross, Aaron Parks,
Vicente Archer and Marcus Gilmore – he projected his
soulful, reflective tenor saxophone voice throughout
an 11-track recital of, as Groover puts it, original “love
songs and songs of people I love.”
On Old Knew, Groover, 32, addresses similarly inspired
repertoire from a different angle, eliciting collective
kineticism and creative spirit from a pan-generational
A-list quintet, comprising Joel Ross, the nonpareil 30-
year-old vibraphonist; Paul Cornish, the 20-something
pianist; and the glorious drummer Kendrick Scott and
bass provocateur Harish Raghavan, both 40-
something. The first three are Blue Note label-mates
of Groover’s producer, the eminent saxophonist
Walter Smith, III, once the leader’s hero, now his
fellow faculty member at Berklee College of Music,
where Groover serves as Assistant Chair of the
Ensemble Department and, for much of the 2024-25
academic year, Interim Director of Danilo Perez’s
Global Jazz Institute.

Tracklist

1. Spaces
2. 551
3. Go For Broke
4. Rain Shall Fall
5. Retrograde
6. Sumner
7. Good Sir
8. Juanita and Betty
9. William and Vinson
10. Old Knew
11. Arrivals

Label: Criss Cross Jazz | Origin: Europe