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Check out all our Blogs!"After I started playing," Grover says,
"I'd sneak into clubs to watch guys like Jack McDuff, Harold Vick and Charles
Lloyd.Drummer Billie Cobham, who
was in the Army band with Grover, introduced him to several prominent
New York musicians, and he soon began freelancing in New York and
Philadelphia.Grover's last album) now lives
in Los Angeles and their daughter, Shana attends Temple
University.The album was a
bestseller, and it established Grover as a major new voice on
saxophone.When his debut as a
leader, Inner City Blues was released in 1971, Grover
was still working at a Philadelphia record wholesaler, "I was
unloading boxes of records with my own name on them," Grover recalls
with a hint of irony.Bob James, Randy
Weston, Eric Gale, and Dave Grusin.American proclaimed the
album, "A true masterpiece by an artist who has the ability to
combine the better elements of pop, soul and jazz and transform them
into a form uniquely his."The Best is
Yet to Come (1982) earned a Grammy nomination for vocalist
Patti Labelle on the title track.Inside Moves (1984)
featured vocals from Jon Lucien.For Then and
Now (1988), Grover explored the many facets of his musical
expression, aided by jazz starts Tommy Flanagan, Herbie Hancock, Ron
Carter and Marvin "Smitty" Smith.On Time Out of Mind
(1990), Grover scored another hit with vocalist Phyllis Hyman with
'Sacred kind of Love.And on Next Exit (1992), Grover
explored several musical avenues, reinventing a classic Paul Desmond
tune, "Take Five," as his own "Take Another Five," teaming up with
The Four Tops and Lalah Hathaway, even dipping into rap.These successes, and many, many more awards and credits as
producer, player and composer, over two decades have today made
Grover Washington, Jr."I'm just staying true to the things that got me to play in
the first place."November 1943, Buffalo, New York, USA.December 1999, New York, USA.Anthology Of Grover Washington Jr.The Best Of Grover Washington, Jr.Heads (CD, Album)
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