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Washington's tenor solo is sophisticated and tasteful; its emotion ratchets up the dynamic in the entire tune. The bottom line on A Secret Place is that while the set did well commercially, it got nowhere near the critical praise of its predecessors. That's a shame, because it is a truly fine album whose grooves and pleasures stand the test of ...
Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) [1] [2] was an American jazz-funk and soul-jazz saxophonist and Grammy Award winner. Along with Wes Montgomery and George Benson , he is considered by many to be one of the founders and legends of the smooth jazz genre. [ 3 ]
Hamilton attended Bob Jones University where he received a BA in Church Music in 1973, [3] and an MA in Church Music Composition. Ron married Shelly Garlock in 1975, and the couple began working at Majesty Music with Ron's father-in-law, Dr. Frank Garlock, who was a well-known speaker in Independent Baptist circles. [4]
From the album the single "Summer Song" / "Juffure" was released on March 1, 1978, and reached #57 in the R&B charts. [4] This would be Grover's last album produced by Creed Taylor . A reviewer at Dusty Groove stated "A totally great Grover Washington record – and with 25 years behind us, we really now realize how fantastic all the early Kudu ...
Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "This is one of Grover Washington Jr.'s occasional strays away from R&B-oriented jazz to play in a more straightahead setting. Switching between soprano, alto and tenor, Grover is accompanied by either Tommy Flanagan or Herbie Hancock on piano during five of the eight selections and he performs such numbers as Ron Carter's 'Blues for D.P.', 'Stolen Moments' and ...
A Secret Place, a 1976 album by Grover Washington, Jr "Secret Place", a song by Trish Thuy Trang "A Secret Place", a song from the 1997 Megadeth album Cryptic Writings; The Secret Place, a 1957 British crime film "The Secret Place" (short story), a 1966 short story by Richard McKenna; Secret Place, a episodes on WVCY-TV; The Secret Place, a ...
Grover Washington Jr. – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute, Prophet-5, ocarina, arrangements (1, 2, 3) Richard Tee – acoustic piano, electric piano; Eric Gale – guitars; Marcus Miller – bass; Idris Muhammad – drums; Ralph MacDonald – percussion, Syndrums; Additional musicians. Jon Faddis – flugelhorn (1)
All My Tomorrows is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. The album was released in 1994 on Columbia Records label. The album is his fifth for Columbia and twenty-fourth overall as a leader; also this is his first all-acoustic record.