Highest rated movie: Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Lowest rated movie: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
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Movies starring Grover Washington Jr. have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 45%.
Blues Brothers 2000 - released in 1998 - is Grover Washington Jr.'s highest rated movie, with a score of 52% based on 403 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Grover Washington Jr. is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - released in 1978 - with a score of 39% based on 245 reviews.
Grover Washington Jr. was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist. Along with George Benson, John Klemmer, David Sanborn, Bob James, Chuck Mangione, Dave Grusin, Herb Alpert, and Spyro Gyra, he is considered by many to be one of the founders of the smooth jazz genre. He wrote some of his material and later became an arranger and producer.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Washington made some of the genre's most memorable hits, including "Mister Magic", "Reed Seed", "Black Frost", "Winelight", "Inner City Blues" and "The Best is Yet to Come". In addition, he performed very frequently with other artists, including Bill Withers on "Just the Two of Us" (still in regular rotation on radio today), Patti LaBelle on "The Best Is Yet to Come" and Phyllis Hyman on "A Sacred Kind of Love". He is also remembered for his take on the Dave Brubeck classic "Take Five", and for his 1996 version of "Soulful Strut".
Washington had a preference for black nickel-plated saxophones made by Julius Keilwerth. These included a SX90R alto and SX90R tenor. He also played Selmer Mark VI alto in the early years. His main soprano was a black nickel-plated H. Couf Superba II (also built by Keilwerth for Herbert Couf) and a Keilwerth SX90 in the last years of his life.
Grover Washington Jr. has acted in films with Dr. John, Billy Preston, Wilson Pickett and John Goodman.
Grover Washington Jr. has worked with these film directors: John Landis and Michael Schultz.
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