Here’s a list of albums issued on Sonny Lester’s cool but short-lived Groove Merchant record label, in 1972:
I have a thing for collecting this kind of music, esp’ from ‘72, the year I was born.
At present (at the time of first posting this), the only one of these I know I have is Holmes’ American Pie.
I ordered O’Donel Levy’s Breeding of Mind, from Japan. But it turned out they didn’t have it in s Asti k, at the time, after all. I’ll no doubt try again, soon.
Lucky Thompson and Dakota Staton are less well known to me, at present.
Jimmy McGriff, on the other hand? I have a fair few of his albums… tho’ poss’ only as MP3 downloads?
Another album that was supposed to come from Japan, but didn’t, was an album featuring Groove Holmes and Jimmy McGriff. Mayhap I’ll try again with that’n n’ all?
I’ll try to get all of these on CD, as and when fundage allows.
Pretty much all of them appear to be available, currently, at cdsvinyljapan.com, where I’ve been getting most of the Mainstream, Groove Merchant, Flying Dutchmen releases – or in fact anything groovy, esp’ jazz wise, that I can’t find affordably via Amazon or Discogs – of late.
I’ve included links to those CDs under each entry. Just got to save up the shekels!