Smooth Groove

Ray Crawford: Smooth Groove

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 30, 2020

In October 1960, Gil Evans took a large band into the Jazz Gallery, a New York club that had opened earlier in the year at 80 St. Marks Place. It would be a six-week run, culminating in Evans's November recording of Out of the Cool, one of the first four albums released by Creed Taylor for his new Impulse! Records. Playing guitar in the Evans band at the club and on the album was Ray Crawford. Crawford had played in ...
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