The Groove Merchants

Jones-Lewis, Inc. -- Groove Merchants

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
September 2, 2010

Bill Kirchner sent a link to a video. He accompanied it with a succinct message:Play this when you're having a bad day. I wasn't having a bad day, but the Thad-Jones Mel Lewis band made it better. This is from a European tour probably in the fall of 1969—not '68, as YouTube says. The reed section: Joe Henderson, Jerry Dodgion, Jerome Richardson, Eddie Daniels, Pepper Adams. Trumpets: Snooky Young, Danny Moore, Al Porcino, Richard Williams. Trombones: Eddie Bert, Astley Fennell, ...
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