I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Harold Mabern)
Context
Cover of the Motown hit by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, on Rakin' and Scrapin' (Prestige, 1969). A short track, it shows Mabern's openness to the soul music of the time.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Soul jazz, boogaloo, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Soul jazz, boogaloo: Hard bop, Jump blues, R&B, Gospel.