title: The Jody Grind
text: # The Jody Grind
  
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  | Allmusic | |
  | The Penguin Guide to Jazz | |
  
  The Jody Grind is a 1966 recording by Horace Silver featuring both a quintet and a sextet. Released the following year on his longtime label Blue Note, it peaked No. 8 of the Billboard jazz album charts. As one of his "groove-centered" recordings it would "wind up as possibly the most challenging", Steve Huey writes on Allmusic, and gave "one of the most underappreciated" of Silver's albums 4½ stars.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks composed by Horace Silver
  
  * "The Jody Grind" – 5:50
  * "Mary Lou" – 7:09
  * "Mexican Hip Dance" – 5:53
  * "Blue Silver" – 5:59
  * "Grease Piece" – 7:31
  * "Dimples" – 7:17
  
  Recorded on November 2 (#1, 3, 6) and 23 (#2, 4–5), 1966.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Horace Silver – piano
  * Woody Shaw – trumpet
  * Tyrone Washington – tenor sax
  * James Spaulding – alto sax on tracks 2, 4, 5, flute solo on 2
  * Larry Ridley – bass
  * Roger Humphries – drums
  