Richard "Groove" Holmes - Spicy

Title: Spicy Artist: Richard "Groove" Holmes Release Date: 11/28/1966 Re-Released On: 7/13/1999 Label: Prestige Records Duration: 75:54 Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 025218522229 Genre: Jazz Style: Soul Jazz Moods: Gutsy, Amiable/Good-Natured, Confident, Earthy, Energetic, Exuberant, Fiery, Freewheeling, Hypnotic, Laid-Back/Mellow, Organic, Party/Celebratory, Passionate, Rollicking, Elegant, Gritty, Joyous, Playful, Sophisticated Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Living Soul
2. Blues for Yna Yna
3. The Girl from Ipanema
4. Gemini
5. Over the Rainbow
6. If I Had a Hammer
7. Never on Sunday
8. Manha de Carnaval
9. 1-2-3
10. Boo-D-Doo
11. Work Song
12. When Lights Are Low
13. Old Folks

Year Type Label Catalog # 1999 CD Prestige Records 24222

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Although this is dependable B-3 Hammond soul-jazz, some of the songs selected for this set, such as "If I Had a Hammer" and "Never on Sunday," are inappropriate for soul-jazz translation. On the other hand, the adaptation of Luiz Bonfá's "Manha de Carnaval" is good, and Nat Adderley's "Work Song" is a classic that's hard to mess up. Only one Holmes' original, "Boo-D-Doo," on a session aided by guitarists Gene Edwards and Boogaloo Joe Jones. The 1999 Prestige CD reissue of Spicy (issued as part of Prestige's Legends of Acid Jazz series) adds the whole of a live 1966 LP, Living Soul, onto the same disc. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Name Credits Ahmad Basheer Liner Notes Bob Porter Liner Notes Boogaloo Joe Jones Guitar Cal Lampley Producer Don Schlitten Cover Photo Gene Edwards Guitar George Randall Drums George Randell Drums Jamie Putnam Art Direction, Design Joe Tarantino Remastering Richard "Groove" Holmes Organ (Hammond), Organ Richard Landrum Conga Rudy Van Gelder Engineer