Baby and mother "get in the groove, " he says, like jazz musicians improvising.

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Another older Shinjuku gem is Jazz Pub Michaux, a bar whose white-bearded, kimono-and-Mongolian-cap-wearing 76-year-old owner has 4, 500 records of hard-bop and soul-jazz, including a large collection of rare vinyl by artists like Baby Face Willette and Groove Holmes.

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Like Phelps, Nicasio settled into a groove after encountering early trouble.

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At times, it sounds huge, like a dozen people locked in a perfect groove.

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The leisurely rhythm that Kaplan and Roos establish is like a steady, familiar slow-blues groove to set off her spectacular solo.

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When I'm really on a roll if I'm not too tired - and that does gives you kind of energy when you feel like, okay, I'm in a groove now and I'm going in the right direction.

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Quite honestly, it felt like a pat on the back for being in the groove.

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In this six-minute number, Murphy takes the chintzy synthesizer sounds used by new-wave vets like Gary Numan and Yaz and crafts a head-nodding groove, which is made more majestic with the addition of chiming bell tones and an insistent, hypnotic beat.

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This is an enviable score, and whether you like his books or not, Mr Patterson has obviously hit a groove.

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Still, I thought Skylar got into a comfortable groove once the chorus kicked in, and she somehow managed to caress that keytar player's back for like 10 seconds without coming off as a weirdo.

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