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Artist: Johnny Griffin
Album: Introducing Johnny Griffin
Label: Blue Note
Playtime: 47:45 min
Genre: Jazz
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Rip date: 2009-01-10
Street date: 2007-02-06
Size: 71.58 MB
Type: Remastered
Quality: 200 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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This CD reissue does not have tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin's first
recording as a leader (he made a few sides for OKeh in 1953 and a full album
for Argo a few months earlier in 1956), but it gained Griffin a great deal of
attention. Soon billed as "the world's fastest saxophonist," Griffin was also
a superior ballad interpreter with a fairly distinctive tone of his own. With
strong support given by pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Curly Russell, and
drummer Max Roach, Griffin romps on three of his originals, barn-busting
versions of "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Cherokee" (the latter two were
not on the original vinyl LP but included as bonus tracks on the initial CD
release of the album), and a couple of ballads. Superior music. [In 2007 Blue
Note reissued Introducing Johnny Griffin in a remastered Rudy Van Gelder
edition.]
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01. Mil Dew ( 3:57)
02. Chicago Calling ( 5:38)
03. These Foolish Things ( 5:11)
04. The Boy Next Door ( 4:57)
05. Nice and Easy ( 4:23)
06. It's All Right with Me ( 5:03)
07. Lover Man ( 7:56)
08. The Way You Look Tonight ( 6:23)
09. Cherokee ( 4:17)
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