I have a record by Dave Grusin called "Mountain dance" from 1979 and it's pretty cool as far as I recall. I also have the soundtrack to the tv-series "The girl from U.N.C.L.E." where he wrote some of the songs and it's a superb record!!!!!! In my top 5! I had a live record by the GRP stuff once, but it was horrible!! It featured Chick Corea's electric band, Lee Ritenour and some more dudes. It was from '88, so maybe that explains why it was terrible! GRP isn't actually a band as far as I know, it was more a group of people or a record company. They had a record company called GRP, but I don't think there was an actual band called GRP. I think they just recorded toghether, the people on that label, and stuff like that.
When I say jazz, I think traditionel jazz like Oscar Peterson for instance. His song "Wheatland" is amazing! His song "Hymn to freedom" is also a really superb song! The best jazz song I've heard though is Teddy Wilson's version of "'Round midnight"! Absolutely fantastic!!
I mostly like jazz-funk though. I'm not too big a fan of the traditionel stuff, although there's some great stuff in between. I like jazz-funk like Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters", Bob James, Grover Washington Jr., Lonnie Liston-Smith, etc.
John Barry has done some things that were a little jazz-like, but I wouldn't really call his music jazz, but I'm a big, big fan of his!
