His first album of all original compositions, the record is 'likely to introduce one of Boston’s busiest jazz heroes to a much wider audience,' writes WBUR contributor Noah Schaffer.
When Gregory Groover Jr. was a budding jazz saxophonist, he would play a game of fantasy jazz band with his friends, where they’d mix and match their favorite musicians to come up with a dream combo.," his first album of all original compositions out now. “I figured if I’m going to dream, I should dream big and think of the people who really inspired me. And, beautifully, they all said yes.”— have all been heard on some of the most influential jazz records of the past few years.
A week after Groover Jr. got his master's degree in 2017, a teaching position at the Boston Arts Academy opened up. “But I still wanted to play, so I made a point to make sure that I had several gigs a week, whether it was at places like Wally’s or Darryl's Corner, or later on, the ICA and Scullers,” he says.
Groover’s jazz is a unique combination of influences, says Smith. “You talk to a lot of saxophone players and the first names they’ll mention are John Coltrane and Charlie Parker, and while those are part of Gregory’s sound, so is the music he heard growing up in the church,” he says. “And then one of his other early musical influences was the Carpenters, and he’s obsessed with John Mayer.
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