Mike LeDonne - Turn It Up Live At The Sidedoor - [CD]

Mike Ledonne's Groover Quartet - Turn It Up! Live At The Sidedoor! - Double Album Alert! CD 1 Turn it Up! LIVE At The Sidedoor! (2025) CD 2 Anniversary Quartet (2000) Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet returns! Featuring Mike LeDonne on Hammond B3 Organ, Eric Alexander on tenor saxophone, Peter Bernstein on guitar and Joe Farnsworth on drums. Celebrating more than twenty-five years together as jazz's preeminent organ group, this New York-based ensemble's broad repertoire choice, swinging ethos, and dynamic performance style has helped establish them as peerless in their standard bearing of this classic jazz style. Within jazz today, it is rare indeed when a musical group can remain intact for long stretches of time with limited changes of personnel. Groover Quartet have managed this for 20 years. When Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet recorded the Anniversary Quartet in 2004 it was back when they first started really focusing on using tunes by the R&B groups Mike grew up listening to and making them into vehicles for swinging and for improvisation. The Original Groover Quartet, or "OGQ" are some of the baddest cats on the planet bar none. They have been friends for decades, started their families during their time together and have been all over the world as a group. They are a musical family and you can hear that in the music. In 2024 the quartet arrived at the wonderfully intimate club "The Side Door" to record a new live album in front of an audience that simply loves jazz. As ever, the band members showed their virtuosity and unique styles, whilst proving once again that the Groover Quartet in full flow is something to behold!