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GRP Records was home to the greatest jazz records by some of jazz's greatest musicians, including Chick Corea, Dave Grusin and Stephane Grappelli

14/10/2025

GRP’s Big Band legacy!
Smooth jazz dominated the 80s, but there was still good and bold big band music being recorded in the 90s, including the 1993 live album Dave Grusin Presents GRP All-Star Big Band Live!, by GRP Records co-founder Dave Grusin.
Find out more in this uDiscover history of 'Big Band Jazz', by Martin Chilton

From its Roaring 20s origins, to its heyday in the 30s and beyond, big band jazz has produced some of the best jazz bandleaders of all time.

06/10/2025

When GRP founder Dave Grusin starred with Quincy Jones!
Did you know that Quincy Jones’s solo album ‘You've Got It Bad Girl’, released in October 1973, featured a wealth of great jazz sidemen including Ray Brown (playing bass and producing) and GRP Records’ founder Dave Grusin on electric piano?
Find out more about the album at uDiscover

1973’s 'You’ve Got It Bad Girl' saw Quincy Jones applying his various skills to his most explicitly R&B-oriented effort to that point.

05/10/2025

Anniversary of a GRP classic!
'Dave Grusin Presents GRP All-Star Big Band Live!' is a jazz album released on 5 October 1993. The album, released on 5 October 1993, featured a version of Dizzy Gillespie’s ‘Manteca’.
Among the highlights is the playing of Michael Brecker’s brother Randy on George Gershwin’s ‘My Man's Gone Now’. This GRP classic is one of the albums that makes the uDiscover feature on the 50 best live albums:

Jazz played in a concert hall or a club is, for many, the pinnacle of the art form. Here are the 50 best live jazz albums of all time.

26/09/2025

Anniversary of a GRP gem!
On 26 September 1995, GRP Records released the album ' (I Got No Kick Against) Modern Jazz (A GRP Artists' Celebration of the Songs of the Beatles)', which included a version of 'Eleanor Rigby' by Chick Corea.

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17/09/2025

Enter For A Chance To Win A Selection Of Nat King Cole Releases!

We’re giving away timeless Nat King Cole releases on vinyl and CD, including ‘Unforgettable’, ‘A Sentimental Christmas with Nat King Cole and Friends’, and ‘The Very Best Of Nat King Cole’.
Find out how to enter by clicking on the Universal Music website uDiscover link below:

We're giving away timeless Nat King Cole releases on vinyl and CD, including 'Unforgettable' and 'The Very Best Of Nat King Cole'!

04/09/2025

RIP jazz bassist Gary Peacock, who died on 4 September 2020, aged 85.
In 1994, Peacock worked on the GRP Records album 'Live In Montreux' with Chick Corea and Joe Henderson.
Read this tribute to Peacock at uDiscover

Legendary jazz bassist Gary Peacock, who played alongside Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, and Albert Ayler, has died at the age of 85.

27/08/2025

Saluting Alice Coltrane!

Pianist and composer Alice Coltrane was born on 27 August 1937 in Detroit.
Among the musicians she played with were Cecil Taylor and Joe Henderson.
In 1994, her version of ‘A Love Supreme’ appeared on the GRP album ‘Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool’.
You can find out more about her legacy in this uDiscover feature

With a cosmic sense of vision, Alice Coltrane left a formidable musical legacy, creating some of the finest spiritual jazz ever put to wax.

08/08/2025

It’s jazz quiz time!
Test your jazz music knowledge with the Universal Music website uDiscover's Jazz Music Quiz! Do you know your Miles from your Dukes? Your Thelonious from your Coleman… Can you get 10/10? It’s hard but fun!

Test your jazz music knowledge with the uDiscover Jazz Music Quiz! Do you know your Miles from your Dukes? Your Thelonious from your Coleman.

27/07/2025

Are you a fan of The Beatles?
Check out this brilliant uDiscover guide to jazz versions of famous tracks by the Fab Four.
The article includes an honourable mention for GRP founder Dave Grusin’s version of “Yesterday”.

A tribute to the breadth and depth of The Beatles’ work, there is no shortage of jazz covers taking the group’s songs into new territory.

17/07/2025

Mexican-American bassist Abraham Laboriel López, who was born on 17 July 1947, has played on over 4,000 recordings and soundtracks.
Among his contributions were to Dave Grusin's GRP Records' releases:
Harlequin (1985 ), Live in Session (1985) and Cinemagic (1987).
Read this uDiscover 'Session Musician Spotlight' on Abraham Laboriel.

A tribute to Abraham Laboriel, one of the great session musicians to ever do it. His bass playing can be heard on countless records.

05/07/2025

Remembering a GRP President!
The late Tommy LiPuma, who was born on 5 July 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio, was a celebrated music producer. He received 33 Grammy nominations, five Grammy wins, and his productions sold over 75 million albums.
LiPuma was a former President of GRP Records and later chairman of Verve Records Music.
See this tribute at the Universal Music website uDiscover

Born in Cleveland, he went on to become one of the most respected men in the music business and a brilliant record producer. Tommy LiPuma RIP

29/06/2025

Remembering

Enjoy this wonderful uDiscover tribute to Lalo Schifrin, by Martin Chilton ...

Lalo Schifrin, the prolific composer perhaps best known for the 'Mission: Impossible' theme, has passed away at the age of 93.

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