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"Groove" Holmes in Popsville

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Marc Myers
Jul 10, 2018
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A good number of jazz organists of the early and mid-1960s were put in a box. Many of their albums from this period were larded with tedious original blues and a few ancient Songbook standards. This mind-numbing approach allowed labels to hold down their copyright bills, but the strategy resulted in countless dull cookie-cutter recordings that didn't se…

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