Mabern's Grooveyard
Studio album by
Harold Mabern
Released1998
RecordedAugust 20–21, 1996
StudioAvatar, New York City
GenreJazz
LabelDIW
ProducerJames Williams, Kazunori Sugiyama

Mabern's Grooveyard is an album by pianist Harold Mabern. It was recorded in 1996 and released by DIW Records two years later.

Recording and music

The album was recorded on August 20 and 21, 1996, at Avatar Studios in New York.[1] It was produced by James Williams and Kazunori Sugiyama.[1] The personnel are Harold Mabern (piano), Christian McBride (bass), and Tony Reedus (drums).[2]

The material is "a set of off-the-beaten track tunes", plus "AON", an original.[2] The first three tracks "progress in tempo and feeling from medium groove to hurtling groove".[3] Mabern plays "Jeanine" "with pulsing, light-fingered percussiveness, from the treble repeat in the head through a riff-laden and unusually fitting fade-out".[3] "East of the Sun" has a bossa nova arrangement.[3]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]

Mabern's Grooveyard was released by DIW Records in 1998.[2] In that year, critic Gary Giddins wrote of Mabern's album that it was "perhaps his most satisfying to date".[3]

Track listing

  1. "Grooveyard"
  2. "Ladybird"
  3. "Jeanine"
  4. "A Hundred Years from Today"
  5. "Minority"
  6. "After Hours"
  7. "East of the Sun"
  8. "AON"
  9. "Bubbles, Bangles & Beads"

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Mabern, Harold. Mabern's Grooveyard (CD liner notes). DIW Records.
  2. 1 2 3 Shanley, Mike (April 1, 2003). "Harold Mabern: The Accompanist". JazzTimes. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Giddins, Gary (January 20, 1998). "Beale Street Talks". The Village Voice. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). Penguin.
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