Herbie Mann
Supervision: Nesuhi Ertegun
Recording Engineers: Tom Dowd & Phil Lehle
Cover Design: Marvin Israel
Photos: Morton Shaprio
Herbie Mann's clothes are by Sidney Arnold of Philadelphia
Atlantic 1433
1965
Available from online vendors so I will not be posting a sample. Presented here to share the cover art and jacket notes.
On Blues In The Closet & Morning After Carnival, the personnel is: Herbie Mann, flute; Dave Pike, vibraphone; Attila Zoller, guitar; Don Friedman, piano; Jack Six, bass; Willie Bobo & Carlos "Potato" Valdez, percussion; Bobby Thomas, drums.
On the other tunes: Herbie Mann is accompanied by larger groups. On Vikki, Soul Guajira & Saudade de Bahia, Herbie Mann plays the melody on bass flute, and the improvised solo on concert flute. He plays concert flute on the other tunes except Morning After Carnival on which he plays bass flute only.
From the back cover: When Herbie Mann finished recording one of the tunes in this album, he turned to the other musicians in the studio and remarked with obvious satisfaction, "that was My Kinda Groove." What Herbie meant was that the music was happy and swinging. This feeling prevailed at all of the recording sessions for this album. The fact that it was this way is attributed to Herbie Mann himself. When Herbie Mann plays, he establishes a happy and swinging groove, and other musicians pick it up from him. At a later date there was a discussion as to what to call this album and someone remembered what Herbie said in the studio. All agreed that the right title was My Kinda Groove.
On one will ever have to write a thousand page book on the life and times of Herbie Mann. Whatever anyone would like to know about him can be heard in his music. Mann is as articulate with flutes as a Rhodes scholar is with words. For the flutist, music has always been a very adequate means of self-expression. (In the vocabulary department, he is no slouch either. A recent article in Time Magazine, full of Herbie Mann quotable, will attest to that.)
An impressive number of first-rate talents contributed to the success of this album. The distinguished big band leader and arranger Oliver Nelson supports Herbie Mann on two of the tracks, Vikki and Saudade de Bahia, with a full contingent of jazz names including members of Herbie Mann's own group. Guitarist Attila Zoller is featured on Saudade de Bahia and Dave Pike is the vibes soloist on Vikki.
Saudade de Bahia is a reminder that Herbie Mann has popularized music from other parts of the world. The song is a Brazilian composition and is one of tunes that Herbie Mann added to his repertoire before the bossa nova swept the country.
On Mushi Mushi Clark Terry, one of the most delightful personalities in jazz today, is featured on flugegelhorn. Morning After Carnival was written by Herbie Mann and is played by his regular group. He sets the mood of the piece by switching to a bass flute. Blues In The Closet is a composition of the late great bass player Oscar Pettiford. Spanish Girls and Soul Guajira are by a Latin big band and Herbie's flute is completely at home in these surroundings. It is hoped that the music Herbie Mann plays in this album is also your kinda groove. – Bob Altshuller
Blues In The Closet
Morning After The Carnival
Vikki
Mushi Mushi
Soul Guajira
Spanish Girls
Saudade de Bahia
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