Artist	Song
Ronnie Laws	Always There
from Pressure Sensitive (1995)
Grant Green	Cantaloupe Woman
from Blue Breakbeats (1998)
Donald Byrd	Street Lady
from Street Lady (1997)
Bobbi Humphrey	Jasper Country Man
from Blacks and Blues (1999)
Duke Pearson	Ground Hog (Digitally Remastered 96)
from Blue Break Beats - 50 of the Best (2007)
Lou Donaldson	The Caterpillar (Digitally Remastered)
from Blue Break Beats - 50 of the Best (2007)
Jack McDuff	Oblighetto
from Moon Rappin' (2002)
Richard Groove Holmes	Groovin' for Mr. G
from Comin' On Home (2002)
Jimmy McGriff	The Worm
from The Worm (2002)
Dr. Lonnie Smith	Think Rudy Van Gelder
from Think (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2005)
Reuben Wilson	Sho-Nuff Mellow
from Set Us Free (2008)
Big John Patton	Alfie's Theme
from Blue Break Beats - 50 of the Best (2007)
Don Wilkerson	Senorita Eula
from Blue 'n' Groovy, Vol. 2: Mostly Modal (2008)
Gene Harris & The Three Sounds	Your Love Is Too Much
from Blue Break Beats - 50 of the Best (2007)
Grant Green	The Final Comedown
from Blue Break Beats - 50 of the Best (2007)
Jack Wilson	Do It
from Easterly Winds (2004)
The Three Sounds	Repeat After Me
from Blue Break Beats - 50 of the Best (2007)
Candido Camero	Soul Limbo
from Blue Break Beats - 50 of the Best (2007)

Comment:

By the time founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff retired after selling Blue Note in the mid-'60s, a new crop of fusioneers had turned up the heat under the cool school and pretty much sent bop packing. When it comes to grooves, saxman Ronnie Laws lays down a fat one in "Always There," honking his way into the pocket on top of a keyboard that gurgles like [i]Innervisions[/i]-era Stevie Wonder. On the polyunsaturated funk of "Cantaloupe Woman," guitarist Grant Green lightens it up with a [i]dy-no-mite![/i] imaginary soundtrack to a '70s inner-city sitcom that, sadly, never got made. Speaking of shoulda-been soundtracks, Donald Byrd's "Street Lady" spot-welds [i]Superfly[/i]-style blaxploitation R&B to, well, street-lady-with-a-heart-of-gold lyrics in a churning cauldron of sinewy soul. And who better to close out than a man whose middle name [i]is[/i] Groove? In "Groovin' for Mr. G," organist Richard Groove Holmes cooks like a short-order chef, trading a metric ton of jam-worthy riffage with pianist Weldon Irvine. From Jimmy McGriff to Lonnie Smith, from Bobbi Humphrey to Brother Jack McDuff, we've got all the Blue Note greats getting their groove on . . . and now you can do the same.

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