
All About Jazz is celebrating Richard Groove" Holmes' birthday today!
Richard Arnold Groove" Holmes, Born Richard Arnold Jackson (Camden, New Jersey) was a jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. He is best known for his 1965 recording of Misty," and is considered a precursor of acid jazz. Holmes burst onto the music scene in the early 1960s (his first album, on Pacific Jazz with guest
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saxophone, tenor1909 - 1973