title: Groove Grease
text: # Groove Grease
  
  Groove Grease is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1971 and released on the Groove Merchant label.
  
  ## Reception
  
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  | Allmusic | |
  
  Allmusic's Rob Theakston said: "This 1971 session finds McGriff continuing to do like so many other jazz musicians of the time: embrace and adapt to the emergence of funk and soul into mainstream music, and recontextualize it in a jazz arena. The results are an unsurprisingly delicious slice of jazz-funk made from the finest ingredients. ... While McGriff's adventurous side is slightly tamed, it's that willingness to improv and blend together as a cohesive unit that makes Groove Grease such a tasty statement that is consistently fresh with repeated listenings".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except where noted
  
  * "Groove Grease" – 3:33
  * "The Bird" (Jimmy McGriff, Sonny Lester) – 3:14
  * "Plain Brown Bag" – 3:36
  * "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 4:48
  * "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel) – 3:30
  * "Mr. Lucky" (Henry Mancini) – 3:44
  * "Moonglow" (Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange) – 3:24
  * "Red Sails in the Sunset" (Hugh Williams, Jimmy Kennedy) – 3:07
  * "Secret Love" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:32
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Jimmy McGriff – organ
  * Murray Watson – trumpet
  * Cliff Davis – tenor saxophone, flute
  * Johnny Beard – baritone saxophone, flute
  * Horace Ott – electric piano
  * Everett Barksdale, Wayne Bennett – guitar
  * Richard Davis, Richard Evans – bass
  * Marion J. Booker – drums
  * Lawrence Killian – percussion
  