experimental club and classical music in the service of speech patterns and narrative flow
A Postcard to Henry Purcell
Periodically marketed as a "supergroup
you have to go back to the beginning
Gregory Groover Jr.- Old Knew (CD) Maya Hawke experimental club and classical musicOld Knew is Gregory Groover, Jr's follow up to his 2024 Criss Cross debut, Lovabye, on which in the exalted company of Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Vicente Archer and Marcus Gilmore he projected his soulful, reflective tenor saxophone voice throughout an 11 track recital of, as Groover puts it, original "love songs and songs of people I love." On Old Knew, Groover, 32, addresses similarly inspired repertoire from a different angle, eliciting collective