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Richard 'Groove' Holmes: 1980

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Marc Myers
May 04, 2016
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If you were to wander into a club on the Chitlin' Circuit in the 1960s, you'd likely hear music by any number of organists like Richard "Groove" Holmes leading a trio or quartet. Here are a series of videos posted recently at YouTube of Holmes on organ in Barcelona, Spain, in January 1980 with Willis "Gator" Jackson (ts), Steve Giordano (g) and Roger Hu…

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