The latest of the long line of discs from English guitarist Phil Miller features the same musicians with whom he has now been in cahoots for over 10 years: Elton Dean on saxophones, Pete Lemer keyboards, Jim Dvorak trumpet, Pip Pyle on drums, Fred 'Thelonius/Sonny' Baker bass, and guesting on 2 tracks Doug Boyle on guitar. ...

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Sugan

By Phil Woods

Label: Acta
Released: 2000

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Zion

By Phil Keaggy

Label: Acta
Released: 2000

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Live Insurgency Set 1

By Phillip Haynes

Label: Acta
Released: 1998

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Phil Parnell EP

By Phil Parnell

Label: Acta
Released: 1998

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The Rev And I

By Phil Woods

Label: Acta
Released: 1998

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Article: Album Review

Phil Woods featuring Johnny Griffin: The Rev And I

by Douglas Payne
December 1, 1998

Here's an object lesson in compatible, rather than competitive, blowing. For The Rev and I, Phil Woods (b.1931) stacks his distinctive, sweet-toned alto against Johnny Griffin's (b. 1928) recognizable, growling tenor. Even though these two have previously played together in Quincy Jones 1959-61 big band, Thelonius Monk's 1967 nonet and on 1984's Ole Dude ...