What is your pick for the "grooviest" jazz album ever?

No doubt in my mind.  Charley Bird and Stan Getz, Jazz Samba LP..  That's where it all started for me.

Don eternally cold downtown York

Before opening this thread and reading the headline I was going to put forward the same LP. You have good taste sir (or madam).

The Burrell, without doubt, but maybe one of the live Grant Greens on Blue Note:

But these two are also hard to beat for grooviness:

This Ellis epic belongs in the pantheon of grooviness, 'cause it's got "Pussywiggle Stomp" on it:

B3 organ based jazz is the grooviest and my pick is -

Lonnie Smith - Move Your Hand

These are way up there. Both feature Kenny Burrell and Stanley Turrentine.

I dig all the selections so far. It's interesting how many are Blue Note albums.

 This one really moves me... Sorry, Steve. Not a BN but still a great record IMHO.

Agree Tony. That's a good'un. I'm sure we'll get plenty from other labels as well.

For grooviest look no further than The Cat. 

Hard to argue with the Cat - but you simply can't leave out Herbie Hancock  - either Chameleon from Headhunters or Cantaloupe Island from Empyrean Isles. As for Horace Silver, here are my two top ones in the groovy category - Serenade to A Soul Sister, or Doin' the Thing.  And of course, US3, which samples Cantaloupe Island, and Horace Silver's intro from Doin' the Thing on the same track! 

PS - High time for someone to give Doin' the Thing the full reissue vinyl treatment. (Are you out there Music Matters or Analogue Productions?)  And totally agree that there's no accident about the % of Blue Note albums on this list.

Hey guys,

Wow good choices. I have been listening to the albums of Kenny Burrell yesterday evening, and they are Groovy :-)

I add the following to the list: recorded in Stockholm ........ Jazz at the Pawnshop is a must-have I believe. And if I understand the word Groovy well; this album definately needs to be in this thread:

Too many to choose but these two qualify imho. G

The greatest percussion opening ever,IMHO (I prefer this version to the later one but all the critics disagree so what do I know?)

Listening to this on 45RPM vinyl. It's really cool, just as it says on it's fine cover.

...not totally fair as it's a box set, but these guys defined Trio Jazz:

..and these guys redefined trio jazz:

I do not 'get' Jarrett at all.  I have half a dozen recordings which I'm seldom compelled to play. G

Maybe they redefined it. Bud Powell, Horace Parlan, Sonny Clark, Tommy Flanagan, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Vince Guaraldi, and others came along long before Jarrett to define jazz piano trio. I think they are better too, although earlier style. Bill Evans Trios have not been surpassed, IMO.

+1

I played a lot of Jarrett in the 80s, but grew tired of it. I still listen to a few things now and then, but not much. Many of his recordings have Jan Garbarek and I just can't take his sound. IMHO, It's just too shrill, cold and emotionless. I also find Jarrett's groaning very annoying and a distraction from the music.

Sonny Clark's "Leapin'' and Lopin'" is also great.

...isn't it nice that we all have a slightly different taste for music, this enables us to explore new areas..., I wouldn't argue that any of the ones you mentioned aren't special as well....I just like Jarrett more...