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Dec 8, 2020 · This playlist features Jimmy's best recordings for the Sue and Solid State labels, and lots of chunky funk for your listening pleasure.
James Harrell McGriff was born on April 3, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, birthplace of many of jazz's greatest organists. He started playing piano at the age of five and by his teens, was also playing alto sax and upright bass.
May 16, 2006 · Jimmy McGriff, the acclaimed blues organist, who scored his first hit in the 1960s with an instrumental arrangement of “I've Got a Woman," then continued to record hard-swinging grooves that appealed to audiences across musical boundaries, died Saturday at a nursing home in New Jersey.
May 27, 2008 · Born to two piano-playing parents in Germantown, Pa., in 1936, James Harrell McGriff began learning drums at eight and would know his way around the alto saxophone, piano, upright bass and...
Dec 28, 2023 · The Worm, a classic example of funky urban jazz, was new on the US LP chart on December 28, 1968 for the great organ player Jimmy McGriff.
May 28, 2008 · James H. "Jimmy" McGriff Jr., 72, a master of the Hammond B-3 organ who scored gospel-powered 1960s instrumental hits with Ray Charles' "I've Got a Woman" and his own "All About My Girl," died of complications from multiple sclerosis on Saturday at Voorhees Center Genesis.
Jul 29, 2009 · Jimmy McGriff artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music
